What are the characteristics of early liver cancer in the early stages of the disease?

What are the symptoms of liver cancer? Many patients do not know much about the symptoms of liver cancer. Many patients even delay treatment because they do not know the symptoms of early liver cancer. Let's ask experts to introduce the symptoms of liver cancer in detail.

Symptoms of liver cancer include:

1. Hepatomegaly: About 90% of patients have enlarged livers, which are progressive, hard, uneven, with nodules or lumps of varying sizes, blunt and irregular edges, and often with varying degrees of tenderness. When liver cancer protrudes under the right costal arch or xiphoid process, the upper abdomen may show local bulge or fullness. If the tumor is located on the diaphragmatic surface, the main manifestation is the elevation of the diaphragm and the lower edge of the liver may not be enlarged.

2. Pain in the liver area: More than half of the patients have pain in the liver area. The pain is equivalent to the location of the tumor, and it is mostly persistent distending pain or dull pain. Liver pain is caused by the rapid growth of the tumor, which pulls the liver capsule. If the lesion invades the diaphragm, the pain may involve the right shoulder. When the cancerous nodule ruptures, it may suddenly cause severe pain and symptoms and signs of peritonitis. If the amount of bleeding is large, it will cause syncope and shock.

3. Signs of cirrhosis: Patients with liver cancer and portal hypertension may have splenomegaly, ascites, and venous collateral circulation. The ascites increases rapidly and is usually transudate. Bloody ascites is often caused by cancer invading the liver capsule or rupturing into the abdominal cavity, and occasionally by peritoneal metastasis.

4. Jaundice: It usually appears in the late stage and may be caused by liver cell damage, or by compression or invasion of the bile duct near the liver porta hepatis by the cancer mass, or by bile duct obstruction caused by the detachment of cancer tissue and blood clots.

5. Symptoms of metastatic lesions: If metastasis occurs to the lungs, bones, chest cavity, etc., corresponding symptoms may occur. Chest cavity metastasis is more common on the right side, and there may be signs of pleural effusion. Bone or spinal metastasis may cause local tenderness or nerve compression symptoms, and intracranial metastatic cancer may have nerve localization signs.

6. Systemic manifestations of malignant tumors: progressive weight loss, fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, malnutrition and cachexia. A small number of patients with liver disease may have special systemic manifestations, called paraneoplastic syndrome, with hypoglycemia and polycythemia being the most common, and other rare ones include hypercalcemia, hyperlipidemia, carcinoid, etc.

The above are the symptoms of liver cancer. Through the introduction of experts, I believe you have a certain understanding of the symptoms of liver cancer. If you have any questions about the symptoms of liver cancer, please consult our online experts.

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