How to choose the treatment method for liver cancer

Liver cancer is a difficult disease to treat. With the development of medical technology, there are many ways to treat liver cancer, such as liver resection and liver transplantation. Therefore, patients should not lose confidence in treatment. What is the best way to treat liver cancer? Surgical treatments are mainly liver resection and liver transplantation. There is no unified standard for how to choose. It is generally believed that:

1. For localized liver cancer, if the patient does not have cirrhosis, liver resection should be the first choice.

2. For localized liver cancer, if it is accompanied by cirrhosis, liver function decompensation, and meets the conditions for transplantation, liver transplantation should be the first choice.

3. For patients with resectable localized liver cancer and good liver function compensation, whether liver transplantation can be performed is currently controversial. If liver resection is performed, the recurrence rate is high and it is not advisable. The long-term survival rate and tumor-free survival rate of patients who are eligible for liver transplantation are significantly better than those who undergo liver resection, so liver transplantation is recommended.

Liver transplantation has strict standards and not everyone can do it. Usually, liver transplantation is one of the auxiliary treatment methods for liver cancer. Liver transplantation should be done only for those who are not suitable for liver resection. my country's standards have expanded the scope of indications for liver transplantation for liver cancer, which can benefit more liver cancer patients from surgery. It is generally believed that appropriate chemotherapy and antiviral treatment after liver cancer surgery may reduce the recurrence of liver cancer, improve the quality of life of patients, and prolong the survival time of patients.