Advantages and disadvantages of targeted drug treatment for liver cancer

The benefits of using targeted drugs to treat liver cancer are: increasing the chances of survival for patients who cannot undergo surgery and improving their quality of life; the disadvantages of using targeted drugs to treat liver cancer are: side effects such as high blood pressure and diarrhea.

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor that is very harmful to patients. For the early stage, surgery is the first choice for treating liver cancer, but many patients are not suitable for surgery due to physical or medical reasons. Such patients can be treated with targeted drugs, which also have good effects. Due to the different conditions of different patients, different treatment methods are recommended. At this time, it is necessary to decide the entire treatment method based on the patient's corresponding condition, that is, physical score and liver function, in order to better cure the disease.

The efficacy of targeted drug therapy is relatively good, but it also has certain side effects. Targeted drugs have common side effects, such as fatigue, high blood pressure, hand-foot syndrome, diarrhea, loss of appetite, abnormal liver function, which are the most common side effects. The doctor will treat the side effects according to the degree of the side effects. If symptomatic treatment cannot reduce the side effects, there are severe side effects, the drug will be reduced, or even the targeted therapy will be stopped.