Why does lung cancer metastasize to the bone? How to treat lung cancer bone

Why does lung cancer metastasize to the bone and how to treat it? The degree of malignancy generally increases rapidly and can cause spread to surrounding tissues and distant metastasis. When metastasis occurs, the tumor not only appears at the primary site, but may appear in various parts of the body. Among them, how does lung cancer metastasize to the bone?

Why does bone metastasis occur?

Lung cancer is now a malignant tumor with a high incidence rate. In the early stage of lung cancer, it is easy to metastasize to the lymph nodes or blood, which can cause bone metastasis. When bone metastasis occurs, there will generally be obvious bone pain and dysfunction. Some people may think it is arthritis, so the disease is often delayed. Only further examination can reveal the metastasis of cancer cells.

How to treat lung cancer bone metastasis?

1. Auxiliary treatment.

Usually when bone metastasis first occurs, the patient will have obvious local dysfunction, and it is necessary to relieve the patient's pain first, and then use other methods to restore the patient's joint mobility. To relieve symptoms, a series of adjustments are required in daily life.

2. Systemic treatment.

When tumor cells metastasize, local symptoms can be alleviated while receiving medical treatment, with systemic treatment as the main approach. When bone metastasis occurs, patients should avoid activities in their daily lives. At this time, activities cannot help improve symptoms of joints and bones, but may aggravate bone damage. Therefore, when symptoms are severe, external fixation is required to avoid abnormalities at the site of bone metastasis.

3. Have surgery.

Patients who have bone metastasis also need to evaluate the symptoms of metastasis. Some patients will have fractures due to the effects of cancer cells. At this time, surgical treatment is required to ensure that the patient recovers. When performing surgery, the fracture site must be evaluated first. If the symptoms are not serious and will not affect the patient's life, external fixation, reduction and external fixation can be used for bone metastasis. This usually causes the tissues and blood vessels around the fracture site to be destroyed, which poses a serious risk to the patient's life. Therefore, internal fixation surgery is required to provide effective treatment.

In addition to internal fixation surgery, the primary tumor can also be removed. The combination of the two surgeries is more conducive to the patient's early recovery, but the patient's body must be able to withstand the impact of the surgery. If the patient is middle-aged or elderly, he cannot undergo both surgeries at the same time. This requires surgery at a later date after excluding more serious symptoms.

When cancer occurs, it is best to detect and treat it early, and to prevent cancer in various situations in order to control cancer well. Lung cancer is currently the cancer with the highest incidence rate. Therefore, if there are related symptoms, patients should go to the hospital for examination immediately, strive to detect lung cancer in the early stage, and control cancer cells. Otherwise, once cancer cells spread and metastasize, they will increase, which is not conducive to the patient's prognosis after treatment.