How can early liver cancer be treated? How to comfort liver cancer patients psychologically?

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor of the liver, which can be divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary malignant liver tumors originate from the epithelial or mesenchymal tissue of the liver. The former is called primary liver cancer, which is a common and extremely harmful malignant tumor in my country; the latter is called sarcoma, which is relatively rare compared with primary liver cancer. Secondary or metastatic liver cancer refers to malignant tumors originating from multiple organs throughout the body that invade the liver. It is generally common in liver metastases of malignant tumors in organs such as the stomach, bile duct, pancreas, colorectum, ovary, uterus, lung, and breast.

Five major culprits that may cause liver cancer

1. Aflatoxin (AFT)

Aflatoxin B is the most important carcinogen. It is suitable for growing and reproducing in high temperature and high humidity climates, especially in summer, when moldy food, grains, and feed are most likely to be contaminated by Aspergillus flavus and produce aflatoxin. Long-term consumption of food containing this toxin can induce liver cancer.

2. Complex factors

Overnutrition (macronutrients) or nutritional deficiency (such as vitamin A, B1 deficiency), hemochromatosis, parasitic infection and heredity are also risk factors for liver cancer.

3. Water pollution

Severe pollution of drinking water is one of the important causes of liver cancer, especially polluted ditch water, followed by river water, and well water is the lowest. Therefore, in villages without tap water facilities, drinking well water should be encouraged.

4. Chemical carcinogens

The chemical substances that can cause liver cancer are mainly N-nitroso compounds, such as nitrosamines and nitrosamides, etc. In addition, pesticides, alcohol, safrole, etc. can also induce liver cancer.

5. Gene mutation

Others believe that mutagens and viruses in the environment stimulate the activation of liver cell division response pathways, causing point mutations and gene translocations in cells, which are possible factors that accelerate the proliferation of cancer cells.

What are the treatments for early-stage liver cancer?

1. Surgery: It is the first choice for patients to treat early-stage liver cancer. If the patient's condition and physical condition permit, early surgical resection is required to control the condition and relieve symptoms. In order to prevent the recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer after surgery, it is necessary to combine radiotherapy, chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine to consolidate the therapeutic effect.

2. Chemoradiotherapy: It is also a commonly used treatment method for early liver cancer. Preoperative chemoradiotherapy can shrink the tumor and increase the chance of surgical resection. Postoperative combined chemoradiotherapy can consolidate the therapeutic effect and prevent recurrence and metastasis. For patients with early liver cancer who cannot undergo surgery, chemoradiotherapy can also quickly control the disease and prolong survival. However, the side effects of chemoradiotherapy are very large, and it is necessary to combine traditional Chinese medicine such as Fuzheng Xiaozheng Capsules and Zhelong Pills to play a role in increasing efficacy and reducing toxicity, so as to ensure the smooth progress of liver cancer treatment.

3. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: It can not only be combined with surgery to consolidate the therapeutic effect and prevent recurrence, but also can be combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy to enhance the efficacy and reduce toxicity, and it can also improve the physical fitness and enhance the body's anti-cancer ability, thereby achieving ideal therapeutic effects. At present, some liver cancer patients have achieved the goal of long-term survival with tumors through active combined traditional Chinese medicine treatment, such as Zhelong Pills and Fuzheng Xiaozheng Capsules, which brings new hope to patients. It can be seen that traditional Chinese medicine is the most widely used treatment method for early liver cancer.

Pay attention to psychological treatment while treating liver cancer

Family members provide care for cancer patients in terms of daily life, but psychological care is also very important. They should do a good job in the patients' thoughts and help them build confidence in defeating cancer. Only when doctors, patients and family members cooperate well can the treatment be more effective.

1. Verbal counseling therapy: It refers to relying on the doctor's prestige and using verbal counseling to influence patients and build up their confidence in overcoming the disease.

2. The method of suppressing emotions and following reason: refers to the doctor using words or actions to dispel the patient's doubts, allowing the patient to understand the causes and cure of the disease, and allowing the patient to persist in self-suppressing the morbid psychology, thus achieving the purpose of cure.

3. Passion stimulation therapy: A treatment method that uses words or actions to suddenly stimulate certain psychological factors of the patient, putting him or her in a state of stress, thereby correcting the pathogenic emotions and eliminating the symptoms.

4. Acupuncture and medicine therapy: refers to the use of acupuncture or medicine in combination with verbal induction to eliminate the psychological factors that cause the disease. Its essence is suggestive therapy.

5. Emotion-overcoming therapy: Based on the mutual restraint between the Five Elements, one emotion is used to correct the corresponding overcome emotion and effectively regulate the disease caused by this emotion, so as to achieve the treatment goal.

6. Treatment by changing the environment: For patients whose disease is caused by psychological changes in the environment, changing their living environment will help the patient improve.

7. Opposite emotion therapy: It means first identifying the Yin and Yang attributes of the pathological emotions, and then trying to make the patient produce emotions of opposite attributes to restrain the pathological emotions.

8. Treatment to relieve psychological causes: refers to symptomatic treatment. "Psychological illness needs to be treated with psychological medicine." Find out the cause of the disease, repeat the environment and events that caused the disease, let the patient eliminate his doubts, face the facts, and the psychological illness can be cured, just like the story of the snake in the cup.

9. Qigong breathing therapy: Qigong therapy is a therapy that consciously relaxes the body, calms the mind, focuses on Dantian, adjusts breathing, and achieves self-adjustment of psychological and physiological activities to prevent and treat physical and mental diseases. It is a unique integrated and traditional psychotherapy in my country, which includes many theories and methods in Western psychotherapy.

10. Others: In addition to the above, there are also new psychological treatment methods such as behavioral induction therapy, movement and posture therapy, and aversion reflex therapy that draw on and absorb modern scientific theories.