For cancer patients, the most worrying thing is the spread of cancer cells. When cancer cells spread to other places through blood circulation or lymphatic vessels, multiple organ metastasis will occur, which means advanced cancer. This is also the reason why cancer patients need to visit the hospital regularly for follow-up after treatment. The purpose of follow-up is to monitor whether the cancer cells show signs of spreading at any time.
Actually, when cancer cells spread, the body sends out some signals to remind patients to get checked in time.
1. Unexplained weight loss When cancer cells spread, tumor cells in the body continue to proliferate and need a lot of nutrients. Cancer cells will constantly compete with healthy cells for nutrients, consuming a lot of the body of nutrients. Therefore, if cancer patients have a normal appetite and eat a normal amount of food every day, but gradually lose weight and lose weight for unknown reasons, they need to be alert to the spread of cancer cells.
2. Unexplained lumps in the body If a cancer patient finds a new mass in the body, especially one or more hard lumps in the neck, armpit or groin, no If the pain is felt, it may be lymph node metastasis caused by cancer.
3. For cancer patients with anemia, if anemia is found in the blood routine during follow-up, it may be the manifestation of the spread of cancer cells, especially in patients with digestive tract tumors, anemia is likely to be chronic Caused by gastrointestinal bleeding, such as esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, malignant ulcers will appear when anastomotic recurrence occurs, causing chronic blood loss.
4. Unexplained fever Tumor cells grow very fast, occupying the nutrients of many normal cells, and a large number of normal cells and cancer cells without blood supply will necrosis. After the necrotic tissue is absorbed, It is easy to absorb heat; cancer cells themselves will also release some inflammatory mediators, causing fever, which is cancerous fever. If you have low fever for no apparent reason, you must go to the hospital in time.
5. Fatigue When the patient’s diet, sleep and bowel movements are normal, but the patient feels weak, tired, unable to lift his legs, or always feels like sitting or Lying down can mean the cancer has spread. This is called cancer-related fatigue.
6. Exacerbation of past symptoms. When the tumor spreads, the original symptoms of the body will be aggravated. For example, when the lung cancer spreads, the cough and phlegm will increase, and the phlegm will still be in the phlegm. It may be accompanied by blood; if it is a bowel cancer patient, there will be blood in the stool during stool; if the original symptoms are felt aggravated, it is likely to mean that the cancer cells have spread.
7. Pain in a certain part When the tumor cells spread, some specific parts of the body will experience a certain degree of pain, and the pain will not relieve in a short period of time, or even gradually increase. , affecting daily life and sleep, this time should be reviewed in time, such as lung cancer liver metastases, there may be upper abdominal pain, femoral metastases will have femoral pain.
