Can thymic cancer metastasize to kidney?
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Thymic carcinoma is a group of invasive epithelial heterogeneous malignant tumors with early local invasion and extensive distant metastasis. Squamous cell carcinoma and lymphoepithelioma like carcinoma are the most common tumor types. The early symptoms of thymic cancer are not obvious, and it is not easy to find. Most of the patients have entered the advanced stage. Can thymic cancer metastasize to kidney? Let's talk about it
Can thymic cancer metastasize to kidney?
Thymic cancer cells can directly invade blood vessels and cause distant metastasis. The incidence of distant metastasis was related to the size of primary tumor, the number of lymph node metastasis and pathological grade. The most common distant metastasis was lung, followed by bone, pleura, liver, brain and adrenal gland.
Axillary lymph nodes and internal mammary lymph nodes are the first metastasis of thymic cancer. The rate of axillary lymph node metastasis is very high in thymic cancer patients. It is reported that 50% - 70% of thymic cancer patients have axillary lymph node metastasis. Axillary lymph node metastasis is related to the size of the primary tumor. The larger the tumor volume is, the higher the axillary lymph node metastasis rate is and the more the number of metastasis is.
The clinical manifestation of thymic carcinoma is very similar to thymoma. In addition to mediastinal metastasis and rapid progress, it can also have extrathoracic metastasis. The clinical manifestations of patients with advanced thymic cancer are very similar to thymoma, except that the symptoms of mediastinal metastasis are more frequent and progress faster.
matters needing attention
We should pay attention to eating easily digestible food, a small amount of big meals and light and easily digestible food. For patients after radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery, due to the weakening of digestive function, increasing the number of meals can reduce the burden of digestive tract and increase the food intake.
