What are the dangers of advanced breast cancer

What dangers will patients face after suffering from breast cancer? Breast cancer is a common malignant tumor in women and also the disease that poses the greatest threat to women's life and health. The incidence rate accounts for eight to ten percent of all kinds of malignant tumors in the body. Many women delay treatment and increase the harm due to lack of knowledge about the disease. Let me introduce it to you below.

1. In the late stage of breast cancer, lymph node metastasis may occur. The ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes may swell, and the number of swollen lymph nodes increases continuously, and they adhere to each other to form a mass. A few patients may have contralateral axillary lymph node metastasis. In the late stage of breast cancer, distant metastasis may also occur. Breast cancer may metastasize to the lungs, causing chest pain, pleural effusion, shortness of breath and other symptoms.

2. Atrophy of the upper limbs and hand muscles: often caused by damage to the brachial plexus or its sheath during surgery, and atrophy of the hypothenar muscles is common.

3. Breast cancer patients may develop "tumor anorexia-cachexia syndrome" in the middle and late stages. Anorexia is both the cause and clinical manifestation of cachexia. Symptoms such as anorexia, anorexia, weight loss, fatigue, anemia and fever may occur, and severe cases may be life-threatening.

4. A small number of breast cancer patients may have varying degrees of tenderness or nipple discharge in the early stages. Breast cancer lumps grow rapidly. The breasts may have "orange peel-like" changes, with the skin on the surface of the tumor sunken, the nipple leaning toward the direction of the tumor, and the nipple inverted. In the late stages of breast cancer, lymphatic metastasis and distant metastasis may cause a series of other symptoms.

5. Bleeding: Bleeding is one of the most common complications after surgery. This complication may occur after lumpectomy or radical resection.

To sum up, the above are the dangers of breast cancer that we introduced to you. We hope that it can be helpful to you. The harm of breast cancer is still quite large. We hope that female friends can go to regular large hospitals for regular check-ups to achieve early detection and early treatment to prevent the disease from worsening and causing you greater harm.