How to choose treatment options for advanced liver cancer

With the development of medical technology, there are many ways to treat liver cancer. The treatment of liver cancer generally includes surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but when liver cancer is in the late stage, how should patients choose the treatment plan?

Patients with advanced liver cancer are generally no longer suitable for surgery, and chemotherapy is a common clinical treatment method. Chemotherapy is the use of chemical drugs to treat liver cancer, so it has serious toxic side effects. While inhibiting liver cancer cells, it also damages normal cells. Many patients find it difficult to tolerate chemotherapy after a period of time. In addition, due to impaired immune function, the patient's ability to resist the disease decreases, giving cancer cells an opportunity to take advantage. In addition, since liver cancer is one of the cancers with extremely low sensitivity to anticancer drugs, it may be related to multidrug resistance genes (MDR), so the chemotherapy effect of liver cancer is poor.

Therefore, it is recommended that you combine chemotherapy with traditional Chinese medicine treatment, which can greatly reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and achieve good therapeutic effects. Generally speaking, chemotherapy drugs are more effective when infused through the hepatic artery, while systemic treatment has little effect. In clinical practice, the combined use of multiple chemotherapy drugs can improve the efficacy, prolong the patient's survival period, and improve the quality of life.