Early symptoms of hepatitis B liver cancer

How much do you know about the early symptoms of liver cancer? Since the disease has an insidious onset, it is usually discovered in the late stage. Once symptoms are found, it will develop rapidly, greatly increasing the difficulty of treatment and the mortality rate is very high. Modern medical imaging methods have also provided great help for the diagnosis of liver cancer, providing a reliable basis for the location, qualitative, quantitative, regular and treatment plan of liver cancer. Now, let's take a look at the early symptoms of liver cancer.

The early symptoms of liver cancer are as follows:

(1) A history of hepatitis and cirrhosis, with stable condition for many years, no chills or fever, but sudden onset of dull or severe pain in the liver and gallbladder areas

(2) Adults over 30 years old may feel a hard, uneven mass in the right upper abdomen, which shows a clear tendency to increase in size with continuous observation, but the patient has no obvious discomfort.

(3) Dry mouth, irritability, insomnia, gum and nasal bleeding, accompanied by upper abdominal distension and discomfort in the liver area.

(4) Pain in joints throughout the body, especially in the lower back and back, accompanied by anorexia, irritability, and discomfort in the liver area, and poor response to anti-rheumatic treatment.

(5) Recurrent diarrhea accompanied by indigestion and abdominal distension, with ineffective or incurable treatment for gastroenteritis, dull pain in the liver area, and gradual weight loss.

When the early symptoms of liver cancer develop to a certain extent, they will gradually produce symptoms such as pain in the liver area, loss of appetite, fatigue, and weight loss. In the late stage, there will be jaundice, ascites, vomiting blood, coma, etc. A huge swelling can often be felt in the upper abdomen of liver cancer patients, but at this time it is already in the middle and late stages and has even metastasized to the lungs.

Ninety-eight percent of patients with primary liver cancer have hepatitis B, which can easily transform into cirrhosis and then into liver cancer. The incidence rate in men is 3-4 times higher than that in women. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to the early symptoms of liver cancer, hepatitis B patients or hepatitis B virus carriers should undergo alpha-fetoprotein testing and B-ultrasound examinations every 6 months. This is an economical, simple and effective way to prevent liver cancer.