Lung cancer is insidious because it may not show any symptoms for a long time.

A person may feel completely normal while the disease is progressing quietly, which is why the diagnosis is often not made until the tumor has already spread.

Typically, when symptoms appear, they are easily recognizable: persistent cough, sudden weight loss, shortness of breath. These signs rarely go unnoticed. But there are also more unusual, little-known bodily signals.

For example, one of the first strange signs is  thickening of the fingertips  . They appear slightly swollen and take on a shape reminiscent of an upside-down spoon.

This condition affects only a small percentage of people with lung cancer, but doctors stress  that it should not be ignored  . It can be one of the first warning signs of a serious illness.

“Baguettes” – what is this symptom?

Many people have heard of symptoms like coughing or shortness of breath. But almost no one knows about so-called “drumsticks,” an unusual change in the shape of the fingers and nails that can appear in the early stages of the disease.