Breast cancer symptoms of sternal metastasis?

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Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women, and patients have different symptoms in different periods. Among them, the symptoms of cancer cell metastasis and diffusion bring great harm to patients, which needs our attention. So, what are the symptoms of advanced breast cancer after metastasis? Here is a detailed introduction.

Breast cancer symptoms of sternal metastasis?

Most of the pulmonary metastases were nodules of different sizes in the lung, occasionally a single nodule. A few cases showed carcinomatous lymphangitis with obvious cough, shortness of breath and cyanosis.

The most bone metastases were the thoracic, lumbar and pelvic bones, followed by the ribs and femurs; Most of them were osteolytic and a few were osteogenic; Pathological fracture may occur in long bone metastasis, paraplegia may be caused by spinal cord compression in spinal metastasis, and progressive pain may occur in clinic.

The early symptoms of liver metastasis were not obvious. Ultrasonography and CT examination were helpful for early detection. Pleural metastases are often secondary to lung metastases. Occasionally, patients with simple pleural metastases are mainly manifested as pleural effusion, which can be bloody. Sometimes cancer cells can be found in pleural effusion.

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Hematogenous metastasis: breast cancer cells can directly invade blood vessels and cause distant metastasis. The vein of breast deep tissue, chest muscle and chest wall flowing into axillary vein, subclavian vein and innominate vein is an important way of lung metastasis. The incidence of distant metastasis of breast cancer is related to the size of primary tumor, the number of lymph node metastasis and pathological grade. The most common distant metastasis of breast cancer is lung, followed by bone, liver, soft tissue, brain and adrenal gland.