Can metastic colon cancer cause severe breathlessness ?

Sometimes if:: Colon cancer often spreads to the lungs and this would cause breathlessness. If for some reason the patient is very anemic it's possible he/or she would be short of breath.

Right to know: I've been following your many questions here and wanted to share my concern and express my sympathy. You describe caring for a loved one who appears to have end-stage colorectal cancer metastatic in the liver, with low albumin, high bilirubin, and low platelets. This is the time to sit down and have a frank talk with your physician about comfort measures. Insist on a full, truthful discussion.

Yes but rare: metastatic colon cancer for the most part is an intra peritoneal problem. At times nodular lesions are seen in the lung, but to cause breathlessness ,involves mediastinal structures. Here extensive invovlvement of mediastinal nodes would be required unless there was tracheal compression higher up in the chest cavity, something not commonly seen in metastatic colon Ca