How can liver cancer be cured? What should be paid attention to in liver cancer treatment?

Liver cancer can be said to be a fatal disease, so we must take immediate measures after confirming it. If we want to achieve a better treatment effect, first of all, we have to determine what type it is, because liver cancer can have many types. After clarifying it, it is very helpful for us to formulate the best treatment plan. Let us introduce the classification and treatment methods of pancreatic cancer.

What are the classifications of liver cancer?

This is actually relatively easy to classify. Generally, you will know the reason once you understand the cause of the disease. Currently, it can be summarized into two main categories, namely primary liver cancer and secondary liver cancer.

The former is the most common, and it initially transforms from the epithelial or mesenchymal tissue of the liver. Of course, normal tissue cells cannot become cancer. It is some unhealthy or dying cells that undergo genetic mutations and slowly infect other normal cells, eventually developing into liver cancer that doctors are helpless to treat.

The latter is a secondary liver cancer. Generally speaking, the patient's liver itself does not have any disease, but malignant tumors in other organs of the body invade the liver, causing the liver to be infected, and finally the tissue cells mutate into liver cancer. Therefore, secondary liver cancer is also called metastatic liver cancer.

What should we pay attention to when treating liver cancer?

There are many treatments for liver cancer at present. If you want to get a more ideal effect, you still have to choose according to your own situation. Currently, the more commonly used ones are surgical resection, liver transplantation, drug therapy, interventional therapy, ablation therapy, targeted drugs, immunotherapy, and traditional Chinese medicine treatment. If the patient has early liver cancer, surgical resection, ablation therapy, etc. can be considered as the main treatment, and other treatments as auxiliary, because at this time, the purpose of treatment is mainly to pursue a cure.

In the late stage, immunotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine can be considered. The purpose of treatment is to prolong life and improve the quality of life. In addition, it is important to understand that the treatment of secondary liver cancer is more complicated than that of primary liver cancer. The most important thing is to control the primary disease. If the primary disease is well controlled, the secondary disease can also be controlled more easily.

Finally, we must seize the time for the treatment of liver cancer, because this disease is not so easy to treat. The time of treatment depends on the cure rate. Only early-stage liver cancer has hope of recovery. For late-stage liver cancer, the effect is mostly unsatisfactory. Therefore, you can also appropriately understand some of the early manifestations of liver cancer, or go to the hospital for regular physical examinations, which will help us detect and treat it early.