Hand & Finger Pain and Fatigue
Two more warning signs of lung cancer are fatigue and pain in the fingers/hands. Another indicator when it comes to the hands is the thickening of the palms and the whitening of the skin and development of distinct folds of the skin. The technical term for this is “tripe palms” since it has a similar appearance to tripe, the lining of animal stomachs. This condition is actually much more common with stomach cancer than it is with lung cancer (35 percent versus 11 percent). The reason behind this condition is that the cancer disrupts the way that the body can conduct normal bodily functions. More specifically, the skin of the palms become hyper stimulated, which results in their proliferation and the build-up of white skin that is thick and scaly.
