BONE METASTASES – DESCRIPTION
What about the bones—how do we check for secondary deposits there? Pain is the most common symptom that leads your doctor to suspect cancer in the bones. However, the pain may just be in one bone when a number are affected and sometimes there is no pain at all. In some cases the diagnosis is made only after a fracture in a weakened bone occurs. However, it is very rare for a fracture to occur at a site that hasn’t been at all painful beforehand.
If the cancer in the bones fills up a lot of the bone marrow cavity, this prevents you from making new blood cells normally. Any one or all three of the red cells, white cells and platelets may be affected. Too few red cells is anaemia, which can make you tired and lacking in energy. Too few white cells makes you liable to get infections more easily than normal. Too few platelets means the blood doesn’t clot properly, so that you bruise and bleed easily.
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