What are the general hazards of bone cancer

Bones are the support of the human body and important tissues that enable humans to move. The skeletal system, like other organs, can suffer from tumors from any tissue components or metastatic lesions from other organs. Tumors that invade bones can be called benign tumors, while malignant tumors are what people often call cancer. Here we will introduce to you the dangers of bone cancer.

1. Pain

It is the main symptom of bone tumor in the early stage. The disease is mild and intermittent at the beginning. As the disease progresses, the pain may gradually increase and develop into a continuous pain. Most patients have aggravated pain at night and affect their sleep. The pain can radiate to distant places.

2. Swelling or lumps

Tumors located under the periosteum or superficially appear earlier, and bone expansion and deformation can be felt. If the tumor penetrates outside the bone, a fixed soft tissue mass may be formed, with a smooth or uneven surface.

3. Dysfunction

When bone cancer patients are in the late stages, pain and swelling may impair some of their functions, and they may also have corresponding muscle atrophy symptoms.

4. Compression symptoms

Tumors that grow into the cranial cavity and nasal cavity can compress the brain and nasal tissues, causing symptoms of cranial compression and difficulty breathing; pelvic tumors can compress the rectum and bladder, causing difficulty in defecation and urination; spinal tumors can compress the spinal cord and cause paralysis.

5. Deformity

The tumor affects the development and firmness of the limb bones and causes deformities, which are more obvious in the lower limbs.

6. Pathological fracture

Even the slightest external force at the tumor site can easily cause fractures, which are accompanied by severe swelling and pain at the fracture site. Pathological fractures of the spine are often accompanied by paraplegia.

7. Systemic symptoms

In the later stages of bone tumors, due to tumor consumption, toxic stimulation and painful torture, a series of systemic symptoms may appear, such as insomnia, irritability, loss of appetite, mental depression, pale complexion, progressive weight loss, anemia, cachexia, etc.

The above is a detailed answer to the general dangers of bone cancer. I hope the above content can be helpful to everyone.