clinical features

Last reviewed 02/2021

Clinical features may be classified:

  • local effects:
    • intra-pulmonary
    • intra-thoracic infiltration
  • extra-thoracic metastases
  • non - metastatic:
    • endocrine
    • neurologic
  • dermatologic

Lung cancer should be suspected in any patient with a pneumonia which is slow to resolve or is recurrent, or who presents with a pyrexia of unknown origin.