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Lung cancer describes cells that have gone haywire. Reproducing at an uncontrollable speed, the cells form a cancerous tumour. One side effect is weight loss, but how do the two correlate?

Cancer Research UK testifies that "weight loss is common in people with cancer".

Although the weight loss can be associated with a loss of appetite, there are various factors that can lead to this side effect.

For instance, people may experience difficulty swallowing, suffer from malabsorption (not being able to absorb nutrients from food), or feeling and being sick.

According to Cancer Research UK, scientists currently think that cancer causes the immune system to release certain chemicals called cytokines into the blood that causes inflammation.

This is thought to contribute to the loss of fat and muscle in lung cancer patients.

Cachexia is more common in people with lung cancer, and the symptoms include:

Around 60 percent of people with lung cancer suffer from a loss of appetite and significant weight loss by the time they get diagnosed with the condition.

Losing more than five percent of your normal weight without dieting within a year is alarm bells in any doctor's ears.

Although this reduction may not seem significant, at that rate it could become a severe problem. And it's a likely indicator of cancer.

Other symptoms of lung cancer include:

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Lung cancer symptoms: The sign in your weight that could signal the deadly disease - Express

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