What are the common symptoms of liver cancer patients? Liver cancer may also present these symptoms

Due to social development, economic improvement and many other factors, people often feel very tired. However, people do not pay attention to it and think it is normal. In fact, it is not. If you always feel tired and have loss of appetite, it is recommended to go to the hospital for a check-up to check whether it is liver cancer.

Frequent fatigue or liver cancer

Compared with fatigue caused by other reasons, fatigue caused by liver disease, especially liver cancer, is not relieved even if the patient lies down to rest quietly. The fatigue caused by liver disease is mainly related to liver function. If this continues for a long time, it will easily lead to fatigue, difficulty concentrating, dizziness, tinnitus and other phenomena. The liver is responsible for the metabolism of three major substances and plays an important role in hormone balance. If the liver is dysfunctional, there will be problems such as nutrient absorption disorders and insufficient energy. In addition, hormone imbalance can also cause various symptoms such as water and sodium retention and ascites, causing fatigue.

In addition, liver cancer may also cause the following symptoms:

Early symptoms of liver cancer:

It takes about 2 years for liver cancer to develop from the first cancer cell in the liver to the patient's subjective symptoms. During this period, the patient may not have any symptoms or signs. Only a few patients may experience anorexia, upper abdominal distension, abdominal pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, etc. Some patients may experience mild liver enlargement, jaundice and skin itching. However, in general, these symptoms are difficult to be taken seriously. Therefore, in clinical practice, many liver cancer patients are often in the middle or late stage of their disease when they are discovered.

Symptoms of mid- and late-stage liver cancer:

Typical symptoms and signs of liver cancer generally appear in the middle and late stages, mainly including liver pain, fatigue, weight loss, jaundice, ascites, etc.

1. Pain in the liver area:

The most common symptoms are intermittent or continuous dull pain or bloating. The rapid growth of the tumor will tighten the liver capsule and invade the diaphragm, causing pain. This pain may radiate to the right shoulder or right back. A tumor growing toward the right back may cause right waist pain. Sudden onset of severe abdominal pain and peritoneal irritation signs indicates subcapsular bleeding of the cancerous nodule or rupture into the abdominal cavity.

2. Digestive tract symptoms:

Symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea are easily ignored due to their lack of specificity.

3. Fatigue, weight loss, general weakness, and a few patients in the late stage may develop cachexia.

4. Fever:

Generally, the fever is low-grade, occasionally reaching above 39°C, with persistent fever, low-grade fever in the afternoon, or high fever of the remittent type. Fever is related to the absorption of necrotic products of the tumor. Compression or invasion of the bile duct by the tumor may lead to biliary infection.

5. Symptoms of metastatic lesions:

The tumor metastasizes to the site where there are corresponding symptoms, which sometimes become the first symptoms of liver cancer. For example, metastasis to the lungs can cause coughing and hemoptysis; metastasis to the pleura can cause chest pain and bloody pleural effusion; tumor thrombus blocking the pulmonary artery or branch can cause pulmonary infarction

From the above, we can see that the harm of liver cancer is very great, so once any abnormality is found in the body, everyone must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.