Do you know what kind of malignant tumors are most common among women on the mainland? The answer is only three words: breast cancer!
Breast cancer is not only the most highly prevalent type of cancer in women, but it is also the most common malignancy in the world. In 2020, the number of new breast cancer diagnoses worldwide reached 2.26 million, of which 420,000 were from China.
In this year, 120,000 breast cancer patients on the mainland died due to organ failure, complications and other factors.
Purely from the perspective of the incidence and mortality of breast cancer, its clinical treatment effect is still good. The reason for this is that the breast gland is not an important organ of the human body, and in recent years, the popularization of breast cancer knowledge in the mainland is very in place, and many women pay more attention to breast cancer screening, so that the early diagnosis rate of breast cancer is further improved, which in turn increases the clinical cure rate of breast cancer. However, this does not mean that everyone can relax their vigilance against breast cancer.
Because breast cancer is a malignant tumor that loves to "gnaw on bones", its chances of bone metastasis are quite high!
The so-called bone metastases refer to the growth of some primary parts of the malignant tumor to a certain extent, cancer cells infiltrate into the surrounding tissues and enter the vasculature, or tumor cells fall off and release into the blood circulation, cancer cells in the bone marrow in the blood vessel wall infiltrate, proliferation to the outside of the blood vessels, once the blood transport in the metastatic cancer foci is successfully established, a new bone metastasis lesion will be formed.
Bone metastases and primary cancer foci of the same pathological type, as far as the current clinical data is available, of all malignant tumors, breast cancer bone metastasis is the most common, there are nearly 73.1% of bone metastases patients are developed from breast cancer. Once bone metastases develop, patients may experience intolerable bone pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcemia, bone marrow failure, and other problems.
That being the case, what exactly should breast cancer patients do to prevent bone metastasis?
1. Early diagnosis
According to the current clinical data, the high risk of breast cancer includes people with a family history of breast cancer, late marriage and late childbearing, long-term exposure to ionizing radiation, early menarche but late menopause and other groups. To avoid developing breast cancer without knowing it, such people need to see regular doctors for breast cancer screening.
In addition, if you have recently found a painless lump in the breast, there is nipple erosion, a tangerine or dimple-like change in the breast, or axillary lump, you need to see a doctor as soon as possible. At present, the commonly used examination methods in clinical practice are breast molybdenum examination, ultrasonography, histopathological examination, etc.;
2. Confirmed diagnosis and treatment
Breast cancer is the same as other cancer types, and the more you are in the early carcinoma in situ and local invasive carcinoma, the better the prognosis of the patient.
Therefore, as long as breast cancer is diagnosed, patients should actively cooperate with doctors to carry out treatment, such as surgical therapy, radiation therapy, endocrine therapy, chemotherapy, biological targeted therapy, etc., which are commonly used clinical treatment methods. Patients with early-stage breast cancer receive treatment and have a survival rate of more than 90% within five years.
All in all, although breast cancer is prone to bone metastasis, as long as it can be found and actively treated at the beginning, the patient's condition can be effectively controlled, and even clinical cure can be achieved.
Even if breast cancer is combined with bone metastasis, there is a corresponding treatment method in the clinic, so there is no need for patients to be overly pessimistic and actively cooperate with doctors for treatment, which is the most important.