Cancer in the body, 'leg' prophet? If there are these three phenomena on the legs, does it really imply that cancer is coming?
Everyone has a 1 in 5 chance of getting cancer . Cancer has also become the top cause of death for Chinese residents.
More than 1.6 million people are diagnosed with cancer in China every year, and 1.2 million people die from cancer.
About 10,000 people are diagnosed with cancer every day, and an average of 7 people die of cancer every minute.
Cancer will spread to all parts of our body through direct metastasis, lymphatic metastasis, blood metastasis, etc., and will show different symptoms in different parts of the body. If you observe carefully, you will find some subtle changes in the body.
As the saying goes, a person is a prophet of a diseased leg, and the symptoms that appear on the leg can determine the disease that occurs in the body.
Why does cancer appear abnormally in the legs?
For example, cervical cancer can easily cause lesions of the lower extremities, which can cause leg swelling, deformation, and some accompanied by pain.
Because cervical cancer can easily lead to blockage of blood vessels in the legs, and also invades the nerves of the lower extremities, when cancer cells invade the nerves and blood vessels of our lower extremities, abnormalities in the legs, such as swelling and pain, and even movement disorders occur.
However, many diseases can also lead to thrombosis of the lower extremities or pain in the lower extremities, and the specifics also need to be determined by other symptoms and comprehensive judgments.
If you have these symptoms on the legs, it does not rule out the arrival of cancer
Symptom 1. Leg Embolism
When it comes to leg embolism, many people think it is caused by blood clots, but there are many reasons for blood clots, among which tumor thrombus is one of them.
If there is an unexplained embolism in the limb, it is necessary to be alert to the possibility of tumor embolism. Many cancers can cause tumor emboli in the legs, such as cervical cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, etc.
Symptom 2: Leg swelling and pain
No one thought that leg swelling and pain are so common, and it may also be cancer. Cervical cancer can cause leg swelling and pain. Because cervical cancer easily invades the nerves and blood of the lower extremities, it will cause pain in the lower extremities and seriously lead to movement disorders.
Symptom 3. Abnormal leg swelling
Many people know that cancer can metastasize, and bone metastasis is one of them. Because bone metastases from cancer can cause abnormal bulges in the legs, a comprehensive evaluation is recommended if these masses are present.
If the lung cancer has metastasized to the bone, causing a lump in the leg, without comprehensive consideration and examination, removing the lump does not fundamentally solve the problem and increases the pain of the patient.
Symptoms: Heel Pain
Heel pain is most commonly seen in the disease plantar fasciitis, especially when it is very painful to stand up in the morning. Of course, there are other reasons that can cause heel pain, such as excessive exercise, Achilles tendonitis, arthritis, etc., and unsuitable shoes can also cause it. There are also rare diseases such as bone infections, spines or tumors that can also cause heel pain.
Therefore, after middle age, people should start to pay attention to the changes in the legs. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "all the calf meridians with cancer are open." But the lack of calf meridians does not necessarily mean cancer.
However, the calf meridian is blocked, which will definitely cause some intractable diseases, such as psoriasis, vitiligo, ichthyosis, ankylosing spondylitis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, diabetes, uterine cold, dysmenorrhea, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, etc. .
The occurrence of these phenomena is not necessarily cancer, and it is necessary to go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, and the doctor will comprehensively determine what disease is causing it.
Reminding everyone to pay attention to these changes in the legs is to increase everyone's knowledge of disease prevention. Although cancer is scary, as we know more and more about the prevention of the disease, if it can be detected early, many possibilities of cure are also great.