Symptoms of advanced liver cancer

What are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer?

There are many clinical manifestations of advanced liver cancer, generally including fatigue, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, etc. Most patients will have pain symptoms, and a small number will have low fever. For advanced liver cancer, symptomatic supportive treatment is the main treatment, which can be given pain relief, and appropriate liver protection, diuresis, stomach protection, etc.

If the clinical symptoms are severe, with obvious nausea and vomiting, antiemetic treatment can be given. The treatment effect of advanced liver cancer is not ideal, and some may even worsen progressively.

What are the drugs for liver cancer?

Liver cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system. Generally, there are drug treatments, surgical treatments, interventional treatments, and anti-liver cancer drugs for liver cancer. Some chemotherapy drugs, such as paclitaxel, docetaxel, gemcitabine, and doxorubicin can be used for chemotherapy of liver cancer. Intravenous chemotherapy can be used, but the side effects are generally large and not very sensitive.

Generally, interventional chemotherapy and some targeted therapy drugs are used, such as sorafenib, apatinib, lenvatinib and some immunotherapy drugs, such as PD1, etc.