Finger clubing is a change in the appearance and experience of finger clubing nails or toenails. The nail becomes wide and raises the cuticle.
“The finger looks like an upside-down spoon shape, instead of having a natural concave curve on the cuticle,” Brian Andrew Phaller, MDDirector of Cancer Research at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis.
- Feel hot
- Get soft and spongy
- turn red
- May look painful
With finger clubing in the early stage lung cancer, nail changes occur so slowly that they are not noticeable. “I meet lung cancer with many patients, I look at their fingers and they have [finger clubbing] And they did not even know it, ”called Dr. Phaller.
Finger clubing is not dangerous. This is primarily a cosmetic issue, and after treating cancer, nails should return to their original shape and size, call a pull, although sometimes after the cancer is cured, the finger remains clubbing.
Finger clubing is not always caused by lung cancer – this can occur with many other conditions, such as celiac disease or graves disease. Talk to your doctor if you feel that you have finger clubing to determine the reason.
