Symptoms of metastatic bowel cancer include localized pain, difficulty urinating, discomfort in the liver area, or digestive symptoms.
Bowel cancer includes both colon and rectal cancers, and metastasis can occur with untimely conservative treatment.
The most common form of metastasis in bowel cancer is local invasion, where the tumor invades nearby tissues or organs and will show appropriate symptoms, such as fecal incontinence if it invades the anus or local pain if it invades the nearby nerve plexus. When metastasis reaches the abdominal cavity, some will develop ascites, and compression of the ureter will lead to difficulty in urination and frequent urination. Invasion of the intestinal tissues can result in increased frequency of stool or difficulty in defecation.
The metastatic symptoms of colon cancer are also related to the site of metastasis. There are two main ways of distant metastasis of colon cancer, namely lymphatic and hematogenous, and local pain will occur when tumor cells metastasize to lymph nodes. or nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, and in advanced stages, ascites and weight loss.
Prompt surgery for metastases from bowel cancer will largely improve symptoms.