What are the symptoms of bone metastasis of breast cancer

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Some time ago, an aunt went to the hospital and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Recently, her joints are always painful for no reason, and I don't know what's wrong. The doctor said that this is bone metastasis of breast cancer. Now let me talk about the symptoms of bone metastasis of breast cancer.

What are the symptoms of bone metastasis of breast cancer

First: pain. The main clinical manifestation of bone metastasis of breast cancer is pain. It can be deep dull pain, intermittent pain, and has nothing to do with activity. At the beginning, it was relieved after bed rest. Later, with the increase of metastasis, the pain will be more serious in the late stage of bone metastasis, presenting persistent pain symptoms. Often in the lesion area after a few months of pain, breast cancer patients appear bone destruction.

Second: pathological fracture. About 10% of breast cancer patients with bone metastases have pathological fractures. Long bone metastases can form pathological fractures; when spinal metastases, the tumor can protrude into the medullary cavity or form pathological compression fractures, which eventually oppress the spinal cord and cause paraplegia. At the same time, when tumor cells metastasize extensively, destroy bone tissue, invade periosteum or form pathological fracture, severe pain may occur.

Third: osteolytic lesions. Multiple osteolytic lesions are the most common bone metastases of breast cancer. Some patients with osteolytic lesions after treatment can be diagnosed as osteogenic changes due to excessive calcification on imaging. For these patients, we should trace whether there are osteolytic changes on X-ray at the time of first diagnosis. Therefore, when breast cancer patients have postoperative body pain, even if the X-ray film is negative, it is not easy to deny the existence of bone metastasis.

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If breast cancer accidentally appears bone metastasis, the most common symptom is actually pain. In addition, there is nothing special. It can be manifested as some common symptoms of arthropathy, which has a great impact on the quality of life of patients.