Acute Medicine | Respiratory | Variability of lung cancer presentations

Variability of lung cancer presentations
Session overview
Description
This session examines the variability of presentations of lung cancer, as well as those described in the NICE referral guidelines for suspected lung cancer (the '2-week wait' rules).

Learning objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:

• identify the symptoms that require referral to secondary care
• describe the clinical features of lung cancer, including the classical symptoms and signs, local tumour effects and metastatic tumour effects
• recognise lung cancer presentations related to paraneoplastic syndromes