How to treat liver cancer

The early symptoms of liver cancer are very atypical and are often easily overlooked. If you feel tired and weak for a long time and cannot be relieved, it may be a sign of liver disease; if you feel a dull feeling in the pit of your stomach, or a dull pain in the upper right part of your abdomen, a sense of pressure and discomfort, weight loss, unexplained fever and jaundice, you should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

Liver cancer examinations mainly include serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and liver imaging examinations. AFP is currently the most commonly used and the simplest and most practical.

Liver cancer is no longer an incurable disease. There are many treatments for liver cancer. If it can be treated correctly and reasonably, the long-term efficacy of liver cancer is still relatively ideal. Surgical resection is the preferred treatment for liver cancer. By completely removing the tumor tissue, the purpose of cure can be achieved. The one-year survival rate after surgical resection of early liver cancer is over 80%, and the five-year survival rate is over 50%. If comprehensive treatment is used after surgery, better results can be achieved. In addition, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, high-intensity focused ultrasound, arterial chemoembolization, alcohol injection, cryotherapy, radiotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, immunotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine treatment can be used for patients who cannot undergo surgical treatment for various reasons.