Elbow bone cancer symptoms?

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Bone tumor is a kind of tumor that occurs in bone or its accessory tissues. There are benign and malignant. Malignant bone tumor is commonly known as "bone cancer", [1] it develops rapidly with poor prognosis and high mortality. Malignant bone tumors are divided into primary and secondary. It is a secondary malignant bone tumor that metastases from other tissues or organs to bone through blood circulation and lymphatic system. There is another kind of lesions called tumor like lesions. Tumor like lesions do not have the characteristics of tumor cell morphology, but their ecology and behavior are destructive, generally limited and easy to cure. Elbow bone cancer symptoms? Let's talk about it

Elbow bone cancer symptoms?

Pain is the main symptom in the early stage of bone tumor, which is mild at the beginning of the disease and intermittent. With the progress of the disease, the pain can gradually aggravate and develop into persistence. The majority of patients in the night pain aggravation, so as to affect sleep. The pain can radiate far away.

Swelling or mass: tumors located under the periosteum or superficially appear earlier, and can touch bone swelling and deformation. If the tumor penetrates out of the bone, it can produce a fixed soft tissue mass with smooth or uneven surface.

Tumors growing into the cranial and nasal cavities can compress the brain and nasal tissues, resulting in brain compression and poor breathing; Pelvic tumor can compress rectum and bladder, resulting in defecation and dysuria; Spinal tumors can compress the spinal cord and produce paralysis.

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Amputation and joint amputation are the most common methods. However, due to the progress of chemotherapy methods, in recent years, some scholars began to do tumor resection or total femoral resection, with artificial prosthesis replacement. Extensive local resection and functional reconstruction with limb preservation and chemotherapy were adopted.