Symptoms of lung and liver metastasis from colon cancer?

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The symptoms of lung and liver metastasis of colon cancer are severe symptoms in the late stage. Patients may have anemia, low fever, fatigue, emaciation, edema and other manifestations, especially anemia and emaciation. There are also abdominal distension, abdominal pain (distending pain or colic), constipation or constipation. Symptoms of lung and liver metastasis from colon cancer? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of lung and liver metastasis from colon cancer?

The annual incidence rate of colorectal cancer is 48.8/10 million, and nearly 5000 cases are added each year. Of these patients, 25% of them found liver metastases when they first discovered colorectal cancer, and 25% of them accepted liver metastasis immediately after resection of primary intestinal tumor. If these patients were not treated, the median survival time was only 6.9 months, and the 5 year survival rate was close to 0. Liver metastasis is one of the main causes of death in patients with colorectal cancer.

The results seem very pessimistic, but different from other tumor metastasis, liver metastasis is a special state of colorectal cancer, which can occur in the early stage of colorectal cancer, and may only be limited to the liver, without metastasis in other places. Generally speaking, the occurrence of liver metastasis does not necessarily mean that there will be metastasis in other places. As long as the liver metastasis can be removed by surgery, the treatment effect similar to that without liver metastasis can be obtained.

The main distant metastasis of colon cancer is the liver, about 50% of patients will have preoperative or postoperative liver metastasis. The data also showed that about 30% of the patients had occult liver metastasis which could not be detected by B-ultrasound or CT before operation. Resection of liver metastases from colorectal cancer is safe and may improve the long-term survival rate of patients with metastases. However, only a small part (10% - 20%) is suitable for surgical resection, and 70% of them recur after operation. This is also a common form of colon cancer metastasis.

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Generally, there will be pain, fever, weight loss, anorexia, cardiopulmonary failure, intestinal obstruction and other symptoms. It is suggested that patients should actively treat, try to improve the quality of life of patients, and extend the life span.