How to diagnose liver cancer in its early stages? Look at these symptoms to diagnose early liver cancer

People have been dealing with liver cancer for a while, so the level of awareness of liver cancer is relatively high. However, many people do not know about the early diagnosis and detection of liver cancer. Even if the patient shows corresponding symptoms, it is difficult for people to associate the patient with liver cancer. Therefore, people should understand the diagnosis and related symptoms of liver cancer.

Liver cancer is a disease that is easily discovered late, and many patients will not go to the hospital for diagnosis in the early stages. Although symptoms may occur after the disease progresses, common symptoms are liver pain and loss of appetite, which are similar to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Moreover, liver cancer mostly occurs on the basis of chronic disease and cirrhosis, so it is difficult to diagnose liver cancer based on these symptoms. Even if a lump is felt or there is jaundice or ascites, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish it from colon cancer and pancreatic cancer. Therefore, the diagnosis of liver cancer must rely on various special examinations.

If it reaches the late stage of liver cancer, the patient's symptoms are particularly obvious, and the patient generally has jaundice, ascites, vomiting blood, coma, etc. A huge swelling can often be felt in the upper abdomen of liver cancer patients, but at this time it is already in the middle and late stages and has even metastasized to the lungs.

The common clinical staging standard for bile cancer in my country is: Early stage refers to patients who have no symptoms and signs of liver cancer (such as palpable lumps, etc.). Because there are no symptoms, it is also called the "subclinical stage". Late stage refers to cases with jaundice, ascites or extrahepatic metastasis. The stage between early and late stages is called mid-stage.

It can be seen that the diagnosis of liver cancer is sometimes difficult. The main difficulty lies in the patient's own lack of knowledge about liver cancer, so timely diagnosis is not carried out. When the disease reaches the advanced stage, it is often too late to treat it, and it is difficult to achieve a good treatment effect. Therefore, the diagnosis of liver cancer must be made as early as possible.