How to relieve abdominal pain in late stage liver cancer

How to relieve abdominal pain in late-stage liver cancer?

1. In the late stage of liver cancer, abdominal pain can be relieved by the following methods: oral analgesics. Commonly used drugs include ibuprofen sustained-release capsules, painkillers, oxycodone tablets, tramadol tablets, morphine tablets, etc. These drugs are best taken regularly on time for better analgesic effects.

2. Abdominal pain in patients with advanced liver cancer may be due to the presence of implanted metastasis to the abdominal cavity or metastasis to the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. For patients with distant metastasis, palliative symptomatic treatment can be given, and those in good general condition can also be given hepatic artery embolization chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, etc.

What are the symptoms of liver cancer metastasizing to the lungs?

For patients with liver cancer, if the disease is metastatic to the lungs due to liver tumors, there are generally no particularly obvious clinical symptoms in the early stages. It will only cause the patient to cough or dry cough, and some patients will experience chest pain or tightness.

Symptoms include a large amount of pleural effusion, and the patient may experience chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and shortness of breath after activity. It may also present with mediastinal lymph node metastasis, causing superior vena cava compression syndrome, manifested as facial edema, limb swelling, and difficulty breathing.