Symptoms may start with a dull pain in the chest or disguise themselves as indigestion, nausea, shortness of breath or heartburn.

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At about 3 o'clock in the morning I just had a horrible pain in my chest.

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Rarely, a mass in the mediastinum is diagnosed because it produces chest pain, cough or shortness of breath.

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Somewhere in the United States at this moment, a patient with chest pain, or a tumor, or a cough is seeing a doctor.

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Angioplasty was invented in the 1970s as a way to clear clogged arteries and relieve chest pain or treat heart attacks without opening a patients' chest.

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