If there are lesions on the lungs, this can also lead to breathing problems, and also chronic coughing. When the Kaposi Sarcoma cancer lesions are found in the lungs, they may begin to bleed; this will lead to the patient coughing up blood. Always a dangerous sign when one expels blood from the mouth after a coughing fit; it is always linked to a problem in the lungs or stomach. In the case of Kaposi Sarcoma, the lesions on the lungs are growing and create friction, which leads the blood vessels in the tumors to burst.

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