Why do lung cancer patients have bone pain

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I majored in sociology. Last week, my school arranged to practice in the old people's home near my school, mainly to help the old people and chat. An old woman I was in charge of talked to me that she was a patient with lung cancer, which had just been found out. Because I always felt bone pain before finding out, which meant that there was something wrong with my leg. As a result, I went to the hospital and got cancer. Let's introduce it.

Why do lung cancer patients have bone pain

First: bone and joint diseases, why do lung cancer patients have joint pain? Because the symptoms of lung cancer include the redness around the nail bed, and the pain, swelling and numbness of the extremities. Lung cancer bone and joint lesions often appear several months or longer before lung symptoms, and unexplained joint swelling and pain occur in patients above middle age. Most of the symptoms are middle-aged and elderly people. The bone and joint lesions of lung cancer are characterized by swelling, pain and hypertrophy, mainly in the hip, ankle, knee, wrist and other large joints. As a result, there will be proliferation of periosteum at the distal end of the limb bone, which becomes thick and painful.

Second, pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy. It is more common in patients with lung adenocarcinoma, the incidence rate is about 12%, followed by squamous cell carcinoma. The main clinical manifestations were pain in the great joint of bone, clubbing fingers or toes, and X-ray findings of periosteal hyperplasia or periostitis of long bone could be used as the basis for diagnosis. Pulmonary osteoarthropathy can occur in the early stage of lung cancer or prior to the local symptoms of the tumor, and can even be the only chief complaint of lung cancer.

Third: deficiency of healthy qi. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine believes that cancer is caused by deficiency of healthy qi, stagnation of Qi, phlegm coagulation and blood stasis for a long time. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the treatment of cancer should be based on the principle of "softening and strengthening and dispersing the knot". The Chinese Medicine reported in China Daily, sina.com and sohu.com that "controlling the disease mainly" is very good. It can disperse the hard knot, prolong life and relieve pain To prevent recurrence and metastasis, and ultimately achieve "long-term survival with tumor".

matters needing attention

At present, cancer is still a problem that has not been solved in the world. We can only passively accept the results, but what we can do is to prevent the disease as much as possible and to reduce the suffering of patients as much as possible. Through the above introduction, we can use appropriate methods to reduce the pain of patients.