What are the symptoms of bone metastasis?

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Bone metastasis is a disease characterized by bone damage and pain, which is caused by blood metastasis of some malignant tumors outside the bone tissue of patients. Breast cancer is one of the most common bone metastases. Bone metastases usually cause severe pain and fracture. This disease is difficult to treat, but surgery and radiotherapy can improve symptoms, but the curative effect is poor.

What are the symptoms of bone metastasis?

The most common symptom of cancer bone metastasis is pain, early pain symptoms are lighter, usually from intermittent to persistent, if it is serious, it is easy to attract people's attention, but if the disease is relatively light, it is easy to be ignored. Those located in the spine can show pain in the waist, chest, back, rib, chest and neck. Unilateral or bilateral intercostal neuralgia is common in the thoracic spine. Patients in the lumbar spine usually show symptoms of abdominal pain. In the performance of pain often changes, the degree of pain will gradually aggravate, the whole process is faster. Patients located in the pelvis often have pain in the medial femur of the hip, and those located in the upper femur and upper humerus often have joint dysfunction.

The second obvious symptom is a mass, which is difficult to find in the early stage of bone metastasis in people's deep body. Only a small part of the lump is painful. Only a small part of them go to the hospital because of the lump. Very few tumors near the joint can cause joint dysfunction. Tumor enlargement in some nerve parts, usually appear more or less compression symptoms, will produce numbness, muscle weakness or atrophy and other symptoms. In many cases, bone lesions were found only when pathological fractures occurred.

The third symptom is the compression symptom. After the appearance of tumor, the compression symptom of cauda equina or nerve root will appear soon, and the root neuralgia will appear. The feeling will gradually weaken, and the muscle strength will gradually weaken to paralysis, and the sphincter dysfunction will often appear at the same time. There are also general patients who will be hospitalized due to paralysis. In pelvic patients, compression of the rectum and bladder can occur, followed by dysfunction of urination and defecation. In the limb patients are also very likely to cause vascular and nerve trunk compression symptoms.

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