What are the symptoms of primary liver cancer? Five symptoms of primary liver cancer

Although we often hear about primary liver cancer, we know very little about it because it has not happened to us. So below we will give you a basic introduction to some of the symptoms of primary liver cancer. Through these information, we can preliminarily determine whether we have primary liver cancer.

1. Fever: It is caused by tumor tissue necrosis, increased metabolic products, and tumor compression of the bile duct combined with cholangitis. Those without infection are called cancer fever, which is usually not accompanied by chills. Unexplained low-grade fever is a common symptom of liver cancer. The body temperature is generally between 37.5℃ and 38℃, but inflammatory diffuse liver cancer often has high fever, which can reach above 39℃. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as liver abscess, and antibiotic treatment is often ineffective.

2. Hematemesis and black stools: Hematemesis is mainly caused by liver cancer combined with liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension causing rupture of esophageal varicose veins and acute gastric mucosal lesions. Black stools are mainly caused by portal hypertension gastropathy or peptic ulcer. Digestive tract bleeding caused by decreased coagulation function due to liver damage is rare.

3. Metastatic symptoms: Liver cancer can metastasize to the lungs, bones, pleura, gastrointestinal tract, lymph nodes, etc. Depending on the location of the metastasis, corresponding symptoms may occur, such as chest pain and hemoptysis in lung metastasis, and local pain and pathological fractures in bone metastasis.

4. In addition, a few symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed may occur clinically. Some patients have small livers, and the clinical manifestations of ruptured liver cancer nodules under the capsule are similar to cholecystitis. Some patients may be misdiagnosed as appendicitis because the rupture of the right liver cancer nodule is small and a small amount of blood slowly flows to the right lower abdomen.

5. Other symptoms include bleeding tendency, such as gum and nose bleeding, which are related to damaged liver function, coagulation disorder and hypersplenism.