What tests can be done to confirm liver cancer

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor that develops secretly and grows rapidly, which brings certain difficulties to its treatment. Therefore, the best way is to detect it as early as possible, diagnose it as early as possible, and treat it in time. Patients generally do not have any special symptoms in the early stages, but in the middle and late stages, they often experience pain in the liver area, abdominal distension, and upper abdominal lumps. It can usually be analyzed and diagnosed through liver cancer serum marker testing and imaging examinations. Let's take a look at the related situations.

First, let's take a look at the symptoms of liver cancer patients. Generally speaking, early patients do not have any specific symptoms, but if it reaches the middle and late stages, patients will experience pain in the liver area, abdominal distension, progressive liver enlargement or upper abdominal mass; some patients have low fever, jaundice, ascites and upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Secondly, if it is primary liver cancer, it can be examined by the following methods: liver cancer serum marker detection: serum alpha-fetoprotein measurement, radioimmunoassay measurement of continuous serum AFP ≥ 400μg/L, and if pregnancy, active liver disease, etc. can be excluded, the diagnosis of liver cancer can be considered, and blood enzymology and other tumor marker tests and imaging examinations can also be performed.
Finally, through the examination of the above symptoms, liver cancer can generally be diagnosed. However, for some patients who cannot be diagnosed after various examinations but are highly suspected, it is recommended that patients undergo liver puncture and needle aspiration cytology examination. Symptomatic patients with secondary liver cancer are often accompanied by elevated ALP and GGT, and elevated carcinoembryonic antigen CEA is helpful for the diagnosis of liver metastasis.