Can liver cancer be cured? Four effective treatments for liver cancer

Liver cancer is a common malignant tumor. Due to its rapid progression, once diagnosed with liver cancer, it requires active treatment. If liver cancer patients can receive correct and reasonable treatment, the long-term efficacy of the patient is relatively ideal.

What is the cure rate for liver cancer?

The effectiveness of surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the early stage of liver cancer is relatively high. However, the recurrence rate of liver cancer is relatively high 5 years after surgery. This is because the traditional treatment model only removes the lesion, and chemotherapy drugs only temporarily inhibit the spread and metastasis of cancer cells. In addition, the patient's body tissues are damaged to varying degrees after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the immune function is impaired, which provides an opportunity for tumor cells to escape the surveillance of the tumor immune mechanism in the human body.

After being "latent" for a period of time, tumor cells will quietly continue to divide and grow in size, eventually transferring the battlefield to other parts of the human body. The situation at this time is what we usually call recurrence and metastasis.

So what are the treatments for liver cancer?

1. Surgical treatment

It is the preferred treatment for liver cancer. By removing tumor tissue, it can quickly control the progression of the disease and improve the patient's symptoms. In recent years, liver cancer surgical technology has made great progress. The one-year survival rate after surgical resection of early liver cancer reaches 80%, and the five-year survival rate reaches 50%. If patients after liver cancer surgery can actively combine radiotherapy and chemotherapy or traditional Chinese medicine to consolidate the therapeutic effect and prevent recurrence and metastasis, the therapeutic effect will be better.

2. Chemoradiotherapy

Although liver cancer cells are not sensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, with the advancement of radiotherapy and chemotherapy technology, the continuous updating of chemotherapy drugs, and the change of administration routes, the role of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in treating liver cancer is worthy of recognition, but the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are relatively large.

3. Interventional treatment of liver cancer

It is mainly used for patients with mid-to-late stage liver cancer who cannot undergo surgical resection, to control the disease and prolong survival to a certain extent.

IV. TCM Acupuncture Treatment

Currently, TCM has significant effects in treating liver cancer. It can not only be combined with surgery or chemotherapy to improve the treatment effect of liver cancer, but can also be used alone to treat advanced liver cancer.

1. Commonly used acupuncture points

1) Acupuncture at Zusanli, Pishu, Zhangmen, Yanglingquan, Weishu and other acupoints to regulate the spleen and stomach, and use the method of balanced tonification and balanced purgation to treat loss of appetite in the late stage of liver cancer.

2) Acupuncture Qimen, Zhigou, Yanglingquan, Zusanli, Taichong and other acupoints to regulate qi, activate blood circulation and relieve pain, and assist in the treatment of flank pain caused by liver cancer. Use the purgation method.

3) Acupuncture Neiguan, Zusanli, Gongsun and other acupoints to lower stomach qi and stop vomiting, and treat patients with vomiting due to liver cancer. Use the method of equal supplementation and equal purgation.

2. Treat cancer pain

Pain is one of the most common symptoms of cancer. Acupuncture is one of the methods of eliminating pain that people have summarized in production and life practice. The method of acupuncture for treating diseases and relieving pain can be traced back to the primitive society in China. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the theoretical basis of acupuncture analgesia had been formed.

3. Treat gastrointestinal reactions

Acupuncture has a positive effect on relieving gastrointestinal adverse reactions during treatment. While chemotherapy kills tumor cells, it also causes varying degrees of damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa. Acupuncture at Neiguan, Quchi, and Zusanli as the main acupoints can eliminate or relieve nausea, vomiting, and other reactions during treatment.