What are the common treatments for liver cancer ascites? What are the treatment principles for liver cancer ascites?

Ascites is a common feature of patients with advanced liver cancer. It is mainly due to the decrease in albumin synthesis caused by chronic liver damage. Once a patient with liver cancer has a large amount of ascites, it is used to prove that the patient has entered the advanced stage.

What are the treatments for ascites caused by liver cancer?

1. Chemotherapy

Generally speaking, chemotherapy is a more direct and effective treatment method for patients with middle and late stage liver cancer. It can reduce the size of cancer cells and alleviate the patient's symptoms to a certain extent. However, if chemotherapy is the only method used to treat patients with middle and late stage liver cancer, the effect is not very obvious. On the one hand, this is because the liver cancer of patients with middle and late stage liver cancer has spread over a wider range and has more complications, and the patient's physical function is already relatively poor. Therefore, for patients with middle and late stage liver cancer, chemotherapy is unbearable and the side effects are relatively large. However, if chemical drugs are used for treatment, it is relatively toxic to the patient and can damage the patient's immune system, causing great harm to the human body. Although there may be some obvious improvements in the short term, in the long run, the effect is not very good.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment

If patients with advanced liver cancer are treated with traditional Chinese medicine, there may be little improvement in the short term, but in the long run, it can improve the quality of life of patients with advanced liver cancer. Because traditional Chinese medicine is a systemic conservative treatment for patients, the short-term effect may not be as fast as chemotherapy, but it has a significant effect on prolonging the life of patients and improving their physical health. However, if a liver cancer patient has ascites, it basically means that the patient has reached the advanced stage. At this time, the doctor's treatment method should be followed to maintain the patient's physical health and prolong the patient's vitality as much as possible.

Treatment principles for ascites caused by liver cancer

Ascites is formed because the balance between the production and absorption of fluid in the abdominal cavity of the human body is disrupted. Due to the cirrhosis of the liver caused by advanced liver cancer, the internal pressure of the liver increases, resulting in increased venous pressure. In addition, patients with cirrhosis will have hypoproteinemia, which causes a decrease in colloid osmotic pressure and increases the production of hepatic lymph fluid, which causes fluid to leak out and form hepatic ascites. Discharging the blocked water in the patient's body can reduce the pressure in the patient's body, relieve the compression symptoms of the heart, lungs and other organs, and relieve the patient's pain, but this relief is only temporary. A large amount of ascites will be produced in a short period of time, and repeated excretion of ascites will cause a large loss of body fluids and proteins in the patient, which may cause serious consequences for the patient.

In short, for patients with middle and late stage liver cancer, the most appropriate treatment method mainly depends on the patient's physical condition. For patients with late stage liver cancer suffering from ascites, it is best to use a combination of drug treatment, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.