Is radiotherapy useful for advanced liver cancer?

Is radiotherapy useful for advanced liver cancer?

When conventional analgesics or anti-bone metastasis treatments are ineffective, local low-dose radiotherapy can be considered to control cancer pain to a certain extent. In recent years, clinicians have attached great importance to radiotherapy for liver cancer. Currently, it is mainly used for adjuvant treatment of portal vein cancer thrombosis and vena cava cancer thrombosis. Chemotherapy for advanced liver cancer can relieve patients' pain to a certain extent.

Is liver cancer caused by hepatitis B contagious?

It is recommended that patients be relieved for a long time. It is best to check whether there are hepatitis B antibodies in the body. If the hepatitis B vaccine is not injected in time. When caring for these patients, we should pay attention to some things, do not have too intimate behavior, and there is no problem with normal contact. Hepatitis B causes liver cancer. Hepatitis B is contagious, but liver cancer is not contagious.

Signs and symptoms of liver cancer

Patients with advanced liver cancer often have ascites, and are prone to abdominal distension, weight loss, cachexia and other symptoms. They often have obvious pain in the liver area, or pain in the upper and middle abdomen, accompanied by lumps.

In the middle and late stages of liver cancer, symptoms and signs will appear, such as pain and discomfort in the right upper abdomen, poor appetite, aversion to oil, jaundice, itchy skin, and even upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic coma, and hepatic encephalopathy. Most patients with early liver cancer do not have obvious symptoms, and they are often discovered accidentally during physical examinations.