What tests can be done to diagnose liver cancer? What methods can be used to prevent liver cancer?

If you have suspicious symptoms of liver cancer, you should go to the hospital for a diagnosis and examination in time. Do not delay the disease and make sure it is detected and treated early. In medicine, there are many ways to diagnose liver cancer. At the same time, there are many ways to prevent liver cancer. Let's learn about it together.

Tests to diagnose liver cancer

Ultrasound examination: Ultrasound examination is economical and convenient, and can show the size, shape and location of the tumor.

Alpha-fetoprotein (AFp) detection: AFp is one of the most specific methods for diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma. It is relatively specific and plays a positive role in diagnosis, judging efficacy, estimating prognosis, and preventing recurrence.

Enhanced CT: Compared with ordinary CT, enhanced CT has a high ability to identify lesions, which can improve the accuracy of tumor staging. It has diagnostic advantages for hepatobiliary lesions such as liver cancer, common bile duct lesions, hepatic hemangioma and bile duct.

Angiography: Angiography still plays a certain role in the diagnosis of liver cancer. It can make a more accurate and rapid diagnosis of small liver cancers less than 2 cm. However, due to its certain trauma, it has not been widely used in clinical practice.

AFP test: When ultrasound or CT scans suggest early liver cancer, an AFP test is generally recommended to assist in diagnosis.

MRI examination: MRI examination is a powerful supplement to the imaging diagnosis of liver cancer, and it is becoming more and more important with the development of magnetic resonance technology. It has advantages in the detection and characterization of liver cancer in the context of fatty liver and cirrhosis, and in the determination of residual and recurrent tumors after interventional treatment of liver cancer. MRI plain scan has high tissue resolution and can analyze the internal structure of the lesion. Enhanced scan can understand the blood supply of the tumor. The combination of plain scan and enhanced scan is more helpful for the examination and diagnosis of liver cancer.

At the same time, what are some ways to prevent liver cancer?

How to prevent liver cancer

Vaccination: Vaccination is the most practical and effective method, mainly hepatitis B vaccination. Studies have shown that universal hepatitis B vaccination can effectively reduce the hepatitis B virus surface antigen carrier rate from 10% to 1.3% after 10 years, and significantly reduce the incidence of liver cancer after 16 years.

Throw away moldy food at home: especially moldy corn and peanuts, because these foods contain aflatoxin. The metabolite of aflatoxin, aflatoxin B1, can cause liver cancer. It is recommended to eat more fresh food.

Diet should supplement vitality: Liver cancer diet should pay attention to reasonable methods and active treatment methods. Life must have three elements to survive. The first is the life ability and vitality of life. The second is the basic conditions of suitable environmental temperature and body temperature balance for life. The third is the conditions of nutrients needed to maintain vitality and achieve body movement. Only with these three conditions can life survive. Vitality is a prerequisite for human body nutrition absorption. Without vitality, nutrition absorption is out of the question.

Control your emotions: Emotions, work pressure, and especially a bad mentality have a great impact on the immune system, adding fuel to the fire. After learning that they have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, many people are afraid and depressed, lose their appetite all day, and touch their livers with their hands, sometimes for two or three hours, worried that hepatitis will turn into cancer. If this emotion persists for a long time, it will lead to a series of changes in the nervous, endocrine and immune functions, significantly reducing the anti-cancer cells in the blood, and cancer will really occur.

Pay attention to proper selenium supplementation: To prevent the occurrence of liver cancer, you should also pay attention to proper selenium supplementation. For people with low selenium, selenium-enriched yeast, selenium polysaccharides, selenium-enriched salts, etc. should be used to supplement selenium and increase blood selenium levels.

How to check liver cancer depends on different situations.