The harm of liver cancer metastasis and spread

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor with a very high incidence rate. If you do not pay attention to early treatment, liver cancer will endanger your life and seriously affect your health. In fact, the harm of liver cancer is not only reflected in endangering life, but also has many other harms that people do not know.

1. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: It accounts for 15% of the causes of death from primary liver cancer. It may be caused by rupture of esophageal varicose veins or gastric fundus varicose veins due to portal hypertension or portal vein or hepatic vein cancer thrombosis, resulting in vomiting blood or black stools. It may also be caused by gastrointestinal mucosal erosion, ulcer coagulation function, and extensive bleeding.

2. Pain in the liver area: Pain in the liver area is sometimes the first symptom of liver cancer. It is caused by the increase in tension of the liver capsule due to the enlargement of the tumor, or small rupture of the capsule of the cancer nodule, or rupture and bleeding of the liver cancer nodule. It manifests as intermittent or continuous dull or stabbing pain, liver pain that worsens with breathing, and acute abdominal pain.

3. Rupture and bleeding of cancerous nodules: About 10% of primary liver cancers may cause rupture of cancerous nodules. Cancerous tissue may rupture spontaneously or due to external impact due to necrosis and softening. If the rupture and bleeding are limited to the membrane, it may cause acute pain and rapid enlargement of the liver; it may also rupture into the abdominal cavity to cause acute pain and peritoneal irritation. In severe cases, it may cause hemorrhagic shock and death. In mild cases, the bleeding stops after a few days and bloody ascites appears.

4. Digestive tract symptoms: including poor appetite, abdominal distension, diarrhea, nausea, etc. Among them, abdominal distension and poor appetite are common. For example, decreased appetite, indigestion, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea lack specificity and are often ignored.

5. Secondary infection: The emergence of late-stage complications of liver cancer is due to long-term consumption, low resistance, and a decrease in white blood cells after radiotherapy or chemotherapy, which makes it easy to develop various infections, such as pneumonia, sepsis, intestinal infection, fungal infection, etc.

6. Fever. Compression or invasion of the bile duct by malignant tumors may lead to biliary infection. Metastatic lesions may cause cough and hemoptysis if metastasized to the lungs. Chest metastases may cause chest pain and bloody pleural effusion. Jaundice is usually a late manifestation. In addition to tumor compression of the hepatobiliary duct, it may also be accompanied by hepatocellular jaundice or be caused by bile duct cancer thrombus. Bleeding tendency. Gingival bleeding or nose bleeding may occur due to the background of liver disease.

The above hazards cannot be ignored. We can see that liver cancer not only affects the patient's life, but also the patient's normal life and health. There are many ways to treat liver cancer, but many people are still troubled by the disease, so we should focus on prevention.