What are the characteristics of pain from thyroid bone metastasis? If these symptoms occur, timely treatment is required

Once thyroid cancer worsens, cancer cells may metastasize to other organs or parts of the body, and bone metastasis is one of them. Here are the symptoms of thyroid cancer bone metastasis and how it manifests.

Thyroid cancer, the most common thyroid malignancy, is a malignant tumor derived from thyroid epithelial cells. Early clinical manifestations are not obvious, and there are often no subjective symptoms. The neck mass is often an asymmetric hard mass. The mass is prone to early compression symptoms, such as hoarseness, dyspnea, dysphagia, or local tenderness. When the jugular vein is compressed, signs such as venous distension and facial edema on the affected side may occur. Especially when the thyroid enlargement is accompanied by unilateral vocal cord paralysis, it is one of the characteristics of thyroid cancer.

Clinically, thyroid cancer is sometimes difficult to distinguish from thyroid adenoma or nodular goiter, and treatment is difficult, so it needs to be taken seriously. In addition, there may be malignant tumors or metastatic cancers of the lymphatic system, as well as rare primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid, thyroid sarcoma, and malignant teratoma. Among thyroid cancers, papillary carcinoma is more common in clinical practice.

Benign bone tumors often have no obvious symptoms in the early stages. If they grow outside the bone, they can cause pain or functional problems due to compression of the surrounding soft tissues. Benign tumors can also change the structure of the bones, weaken the load-bearing function, and cause pathological fractures (the most common). Malignant bone tumors, due to their rapid growth, often cause obvious swelling and tenderness of the limbs, even skin fever, and vascular engorgement. The direct reaction to bone cancer is pain, which is different from the general pain sensation. The most notable feature is that the pain is quiet. The quieter it is, the more severe the pain.