Painful symptoms of bone metastases?

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Bone metastasis is a kind of disease with bone damage and pain as the main manifestations, which is caused by hematogenous metastasis of some primary malignant tumors outside bone tissue. Breast cancer is the most common cancer with bone metastasis. So, bone metastases pain symptoms? Let's talk about it

Painful symptoms of bone metastases?

Pain is the most common symptom, early pain is lighter, from intermittent to persistent, serious is easy to attract attention, light is ignored. Located in the spine can be manifested as waist, chest, back, rib chest, neck pain. In thoracic vertebrae, unilateral or bilateral intercostal neuralgia is common. Abdominal pain can be seen in the lumbar spine. The characteristics of pain often change and the brake is ineffective. The degree of pain is more and more serious, and the progress is rapid. The patients located in the pelvis often have pain in the medial femur of the hip joint; The patients located in the upper end of femur and humerus often have joint dysfunction. Pain is the most common symptom, early pain is lighter, from intermittent to persistent, serious is easy to attract attention, light is ignored. Located in the spine can be manifested as waist, chest, back, rib chest, neck pain. In thoracic vertebrae, unilateral or bilateral intercostal neuralgia is common. Abdominal pain can be seen in the lumbar spine. The characteristics of pain often change and the brake is ineffective. The degree of pain is more and more serious, and the progress is rapid. The patients located in the pelvis often have pain in the medial femur of the hip joint; The patients located in the upper end of femur and humerus often have joint dysfunction.

It is not easy to find bone metastases in the early stage. The mass reflects only local pain. About 5% of the patients were diagnosed with mass. The rare tumor near the joint can cause joint dysfunction. When the tumor is enlarged near the important nerves, it may have more or less compression symptoms, resulting in numbness, muscle weakness or atrophy. In many cases, bone lesions are found only when pathological fractures occur.

Compression symptoms spinal metastases tumor soon appear spinal cord cauda equina or nerve root compression symptoms, root neuralgia, hypoesthesia, muscle weakness and even paralysis, often accompanied by sphincter dysfunction. 50% of the patients were hospitalized due to paralysis. In the pelvis can cause rectum, bladder compression symptoms, appear defecation dysfunction. It can also cause compression of blood vessels and nerve trunks.

matters needing attention

Bone metastases belong to advanced cancer, 50% - 90% of patients have pain, 50% of them are severe pain, 30% are intolerable pain. The pain management of metastatic tumor patients includes radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, palliative surgery, and the application of analgesic drugs following the three-step treatment principle. Some patients can consider the application of traditional Chinese medicine external analgesic treatment.