Can a bone spur in the lumbar spine become cancerous? The 68-year-old Wu Da Ma paid much attention to physical exercise and health care after her retirement, and she was one of the physically fit ones among her peers, and everyone envied her. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The pain can be relieved after taking painkillers. The doctor at the hospital took a film of Wu’s spine and told her that she only had some osteophytes, or bone spur formation, which is a common manifestation of lumbar spine degeneration in most older people as they age, and that Wu’s lumbar pain might be related to lumbar spine osteoarthropathy caused by lumbar spine osteophytes or bone spurs, and that lumbar spine osteoarthropathy might also aggravate lumbar muscle strain; Wu’s lumbar pain might also be due to overexertion or minor injury. The doctor told Wu that all of these causes may cause or aggravate the lumbar pain, the specific causes are difficult to accurately determine and distinguish, but the principles of treatment are the same, they are appropriate rest or rest on a hard bed, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, pay attention to keep warm, prevent the lumbar area from being cold and injured, you can apply local heat to the lumbar area, you can take oral anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving western medicine or add blood circulation and blood stasis Chinese medicine, you can also put on the lumbar area The first thing you can do is to apply a pain-relieving ointment to your lower back. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The doctor knew that Wu’s mother was afraid of getting cancer, a state of mind that is understandable today when many people talk about cancer, especially for people in their senior years like Wu, who are “cancer-phobic”. The doctor patiently explained to Wu that although middle-aged and elderly people like Wu are at a high risk of cancer, not all cases are signs of cancer, and the most common causes of Wu’s case are the above mentioned lumbar osteoarthrosis, lumbar muscle strain or lumbar dorsal myofasciitis, and other causes such as osteoporosis. For malignant tumors occurring in the spine, there are generally two cases. The most common is due to malignant tumors in other parts of the body, which is often referred to as “cancer”, metastatic tumors that metastasize to the spine through blood circulation or lymphatic pathways; the other rare case is the malignant transformation of the spine itself, which we call primary malignant spinal tumors. Although it is difficult to detect malignant tumors (commonly known as cancer) in the spine at an early stage by routine X-ray, malignant tumors in the spine in most cases have symptoms of gradually increasing pain and numbness in the chest, waist and back, or lower extremities, as well as severe pain at night, and the effect of taking general pain medication is poor. In addition, expensive MRI and CT examinations at the slightest sign of trouble often result in huge waste and unnecessary cost burden to the patient; frequent X-rays and CT examinations also have the adverse effect of radiation on the human body. However, primary or metastatic spinal malignant tumors occurring in the lumbar spine can manifest as low back pain or radiating numbness and pain in the lower limbs in the early stage, which is difficult to distinguish from benign lumbar strain lesions such as lumbar myofasciitis or lumbar strain, lumbar spine osteoarthrosis, lumbar disc herniation or lumbar spinal stenosis. However, patients with malignant tumor of spine usually have severe pain, and it is difficult to relieve the pain by taking general painkillers, and even difficult to sleep at night. Once the manifestation of spinal nerve root compression such as numbness and weakness of limbs appears, it can be aggravated rapidly in a short period of time. Therefore, for the rapid occurrence of severe pain in the lower back or radiating pain and numbness in the lower limbs, one should be alert to the occurrence of spinal tumors, and early MRI examination can help in the early detection of the disease. For patients who already have malignant tumors in other parts of the body, those who have the above symptoms should be especially alert to the occurrence of metastatic cancer of the spine, which should be actively examined. The doctor’s explanation, Wu’s aunt is still unsure, “Although the bone spur is benign now, but will my bone spur become cancerous later?” The doctor smiled and said, “Bone spurs or osteophytes are degenerative manifestations with age, and lumbar muscle strain or lumbar myofasciitis is also a strain disease, which has nothing to do with malignant tumors occurring in the lumbar spine, and the two have different pathogenesis and causes and are not causally related to each other, so there is no need to worry about cancer.” The doctor continued to explain, “In addition to the lumbar spine, other bone spurs in the human body, including the cervical spine, knee and hip joints, such as cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis of various joints, etc. are also signs of aging degeneration or chronic strain with age, and they are not cancerous. They are not cancerous. In addition, osteoporosis and cancer, which often occur in the elderly, are two different things and are not cancerous, so there is no need to worry about them.”