Can liver cancer patients have children?

Can women with liver cancer still have children? Having a child is a symbol of whether a family is complete, and it is also the most desired thing for many women who want to be mothers, but often due to various reasons, these things cannot be satisfied. Young female liver cancer patients have to face a problem, which is fertility. Can they have children? We do not recommend female liver cancer patients to have children. If you encounter a female patient who wants to get pregnant and have children, you should discourage her.

Although liver cancer is not a contagious disease, it has a significant genetic tendency and familial clustering. During pregnancy, the body consumes more energy, and changes in the endocrine system and immune system can easily lead to tumor development. Some patients with clinically cured liver cancer experience recurrence or metastasis after pregnancy.

If the patient becomes pregnant during treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy may also lead to miscarriage and fetal malformation. At the same time, during treatment, patients often have poor mental and physical conditions, poor appetite, and some experience digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which lead to malnutrition and inevitably affect the growth and development of the fetus. For patients who are diagnosed with liver cancer during pregnancy, immediate termination of pregnancy should be considered to focus on treatment.

Likewise, liver cancer patients should not breastfeed themselves. Breastfeeding will increase the patient's physical exertion, further deteriorate the patient's physical condition, affect the body's immune function, and is extremely detrimental to the body's control of cancer foci and potential recurrence and metastasis. Especially for liver cancer patients who have just been treated, breastfeeding should be avoided to prevent recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer.

It can be seen from this that liver cancer patients are still not suitable for pregnancy and childbearing. It is recommended to wait until the physical condition improves and there is no recurrence or metastasis before consulting a doctor whether to get pregnant.