What are the late symptoms of breast cancer?
The early stage of breast cancer may not be obvious, but the late stage of breast cancer is obvious. So what are the symptoms of the late stage of breast cancer?
In the advanced stage of breast cancer, the symptoms of breast pain are very obvious, and at this time, it may be accompanied by nipple galactorrhea, nipple depression and breast skin changes. Most advanced breast cancer has metastasized, so the metastatic site will also have pain. It is difficult to cure advanced breast cancer. At this time, we can only control the physical symptoms and relieve the patient's pain as much as possible.
At present, chemotherapy is a very good treatment for locally advanced breast cancer patients. This kind of patients can undergo chemotherapy for a period of time, and then evaluate the effect of chemotherapy after a period of time, and then decide whether to maintain the old treatment plan or switch to a new treatment plan.
Metastasis of advanced symptoms of breast cancer
Metastasis usually occurs in the late stage of breast cancer, so what are the symptoms of metastatic breast cancer?
Advanced breast cancer will be accompanied by multiple metastases, including lung metastasis, liver metastasis, lymph node metastasis of surrounding tissues and brain metastasis. The symptoms of different patients are quite different and directly related to the metastatic sites. For example, lung metastasis may cause cough, expectoration, chest tightness and bloody sputum, and liver metastasis may be accompanied by abdominal distension and abdominal pain, or jaundice.
The incidence of brain metastasis of breast cancer is only 15% in patients with untreated breast cancer, but brain metastasis is a fatal complication of breast cancer, which seriously threatens patients' lives and is one of the reasons for patients' accelerated death. Brain metastasis of breast cancer mainly occurs through blood metastasis.
Late symptoms of breast cancer
In fact, it is already very serious in the late stage of breast cancer. What are the symptoms of the late stage of breast cancer?
Lump is often the first symptom of breast cancer patients in the late stage. Treatment should ask about the time, location, size, fast and slow growth rate, whether it has changed recently, whether it is painful or not, and the nature of the pain. The time of nipple erosion and discharge, and the nature of discharge. Whether there is a lump in the armpit, pregnancy and breastfeeding. Menstrual history and family history.
Pleural metastasis may occur in the late stage of breast cancer: pleural metastasis may occur through blood or local invasion of breast cancer, or pleural metastasis may occur after lung metastasis penetrates into pleural cavity. Chest tightness, chest pain, shortness of breath, cough and other symptoms are the main manifestations of pleural metastasis in patients with breast cancer. Once the above symptoms occur, patients can be diagnosed clearly when they can take out bloody pleural effusion by puncture, and active treatment is the key.
Can the late symptoms of breast cancer be cured?
Some women find breast cancer in the late stage of breast cancer, so can the late symptoms of breast cancer be cured?
Advanced breast cancer is generally difficult to cure, because breast cancer is a malignant disease, which usually leads to the spread of cancer cells in the late stage of breast cancer. If breast cancer is advanced, it is best to treat it by radiotherapy or chemotherapy. At the same time, we should maintain a good attitude and avoid being too depressed to increase our life span.
However, everyone's physique is different, and Takuya, who can live in the late stage of breast cancer, is different. Some patients died a few months after being diagnosed with the late stage of breast cancer, and some patients found suitable treatment methods and lived for more than ten years. For patients with advanced breast cancer, the survival time mainly depends on whether appropriate treatment methods are taken in time.