How long can you live after surgery for advanced liver cancer

How long can you live after surgery for advanced liver cancer?

How long can patients with advanced liver cancer survive after minimally invasive surgery? This depends on the effect of the treatment, the patient's physical condition, and subsequent conditioning. The premise is to actively carry out fluid and nutritional support therapy, replenish fluids according to test results, and increase nutrition, which generally requires static fat, lactic acid, and albumin. Patients with advanced liver cancer can survive for about a year after surgery.

How to relieve abdominal bloating caused by liver cancer?

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor that originates in the liver. Patients in the late and advanced stages are prone to abdominal distension, and bloating is also very common. The main reason is that the liver mass compresses the intestine. Another main reason is intestinal wall edema caused by hypoproteinemia. Hypokalemia affects intestinal peristalsis and causes intestinal bloating.

The toxic compensation abdominal distension caused by increased bilirubin in liver tumors is mainly treated by reducing jaundice, while improving intestinal microorganisms, oral bifidobacteria can be taken to maintain smooth bowel movements. The abdominal distension symptoms of liver cancer patients can be caused by many reasons. For example, when the liver cancer tumor is relatively large, it can cause the liver to swell, resulting in a certain degree of compression of the patient's gastrointestinal tract and abdominal distension symptoms.

Is enhanced CT accurate in diagnosing liver cancer?

Enhanced CT can differentiate between hepatic hemangioma and liver cancer. The main difference is that hepatic hemangioma has large fissures in the center and irregular low-density areas. When enhanced, nodular enhancement can be seen at the edge, which then spreads to the central area. During delayed scanning, the lesions are filled with equal density. Larger tumors may have a central low-density area without enhancement.

When the clinical history is highly suspected of liver cancer, especially for patients whose alpha-fetoprotein level continues to exceed the standard, it is sometimes necessary to combine MRI with prometastatic enhancement or even perform liver tissue puncture and pathological biopsy to further exclude liver cancer. Enhanced CT has a certain chance of confirming liver cancer.