Symptoms of bladder cancer metastasis

Bladder cancer is a malignant tumor that is prone to spread and metastasize after it occurs. In clinical practice, bladder cancer can spread and metastasize mainly through lymph node metastasis, hematogenous metastasis, direct invasion, and other pathways. Multiple organs of the body may be implicated, and patients will also experience corresponding clinical symptoms. So what are the symptoms of bladder cancer metastasis? Let's introduce them to you below.

1. Symptoms of bladder hematogenous metastasis: Hematogenous metastasis is more common in patients with advanced bladder cancer in clinical practice. Common metastatic sites in the human body are the liver, lungs, bones, adrenal glands, colon, rectum, etc. Some patients may also metastasize to the skin. After the metastasis, the patient's body will also have corresponding symptoms. For example, if bladder cancer metastasizes to the lungs, the patient will usually have symptoms of coughing and chest pain. For patients who metastasize to the skin, the symptoms that may appear at this time include local skin nodular metastases; patients who metastasize to the liver will have abdominal pain, jaundice and other symptoms. And some patients will also have distant metastases.

2. Symptoms of bladder cancer lymph node metastasis: Bladder cancer often metastasizes through the patient's own lymph nodes, mostly to the lymph nodes near and inside the pelvic cavity. If the pelvic lymph nodes are widely affected after the onset of the disease, a variety of discomfort symptoms may occur, including pelvic masses, lower limb edema, and other symptoms. Some patients may also experience pain and discomfort in the ribs or lower abdomen. If the pelvic mass involves or compresses the patient's ureter, it will cause ureteral hydronephrosis, and the cancerous tissue that invades the pelvic nerves will also cause perineal or pelvic pain in the patient.

3. Direct invasion symptoms: Bladder cancer cells can penetrate the bladder muscle layer and serosal layer due to local infiltration, and can directly spread to adjacent organs. Male patients will experience involvement of the prostate tissue or posterior urethra, causing dysuria. Female bladder cancer patients will experience irregular vaginal bleeding.

In the clinic, patients in the late stage will have other symptoms of metastasis, including anemia, weight loss, systemic exhaustion and other cachexia symptoms. After reading the above introduction, everyone should not take this disease lightly. Although bladder cancer occurs in a certain part of the body, it is also a systemic disease. Therefore, patients need systemic treatment. Local treatment cannot solve the problem of radical cure.