How should liver cancer be treated if it is very harmful? What are the dangers of suffering from liver cancer?

Liver cancer has many hazards, and they are all serious. Therefore, after liver cancer is discovered, it is necessary to receive timely treatment, and treatment must not be delayed to reduce the possibility of liver cancer spreading. What should liver cancer patients pay more attention to during treatment?

The dangers of liver cancer

Digestive tract symptoms: decreased appetite, upper abdominal fullness after meals, bloating, indigestion, nausea, diarrhea, etc. are common digestive tract symptoms of liver cancer.

Patients with liver cancer and ascites often have lower limb edema, which may occur at the ankles in mild cases and spread to the entire lower limbs in severe cases. The main reason is that ascites compresses the lower limb veins or tumor thrombus blocks venous return. Mild edema can also be caused by low plasma albumin.

Acute abdomen is a common hazard of liver cancer. Rupture of cancerous nodules usually causes pain in the liver area. During physical examination, there is obvious tenderness in the liver area, which is a symptom of liver capsule irritation. After the rupture of cancerous nodules, some patients experience acute abdominal pain accompanied by peritoneal irritation symptoms, which can be easily misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. Abdominal pain caused by rupture of cancerous nodules is usually accompanied by a drop in blood pressure or even shock, which is different from general acute peritonitis.

Bleeding tendency in late stage of liver cancer: patients with liver cancer often have bleeding gums, subcutaneous ecchymoses and other bleeding tendencies. Gastrointestinal bleeding is also common, mainly due to portal hypertension leading to esophageal varices.

After the cancerous nodules rupture, some patients experience acute abdominal pain accompanied by peritoneal irritation symptoms, which can be easily misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. The abdominal pain caused by the rupture of cancerous nodules is usually accompanied by a drop in blood pressure or even shock. This is a relatively obvious hazard of liver cancer to the human body.

At the same time, what should we pay attention to during the treatment of liver cancer?

What you need to know about liver cancer treatment

Give up inertial thinking. First of all, not all tertiary hospitals are good hospitals. Different judgments should be made for different departments. You should make wise choices after comparisons, and don't follow the crowd. Some elderly people think that their medical insurance cards can be reimbursed, so they will desperately prescribe more medicines and give up the original judgment of the condition. This is also wrong.

Be alert to the signs of metastasis. Patients with a history of primary tumors should be alert to the signs of metastasis (for example, bone pain, pathological fractures, soft tissue masses, etc. should be considered to be aware of bone metastasis), and undergo regular follow-up examinations to try to detect metastatic lesions early so that effective treatment can be carried out.

Ask more questions and check more. Leave professional matters to professionals. Don't make decisions on your own. Before making a decision, ask more specialists or professionals in related fields and listen to their opinions. You can also look up some relevant information to assist your decision. Of course, all the information you find should be authenticated and not all information should be accepted.

Only by correctly understanding the treatment of liver cancer can we have better treatment.