What are the treatments for early liver cancer? What are the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for liver cancer?

What are the treatments for early liver cancer?

Female patient, 69 years old, in the early stage of liver cancer, previously had liver cirrhosis and heart disease. Can liver cancer be cured?

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in my country. There are two common methods for treating early liver cancer:

1. Liver resection for liver cancer

Liver resection is the main treatment method. As long as the patient's general condition allows (heart, lung, kidney and other organ functions are good), liver cancer is limited to one lobe or segment of the liver, and it is estimated that the remaining liver function after resection is sufficient to sustain the patient's life, radical resection can be performed. If the cirrhotic liver is still there after resection, the recurrence or recurrence rate of liver cancer is high, and the cirrhosis progresses progressively, complications such as liver decompensation and portal hypertension (upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, refractory ascites, etc.) may occur, endangering the patient's life.

2. Liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is currently the only means of curing liver cancer. It can cure liver cancer, cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B at the same time. After liver transplantation, patients can resume normal life and have a higher quality of life, but the cost of liver transplantation is high and long-term immunosuppressant therapy is required after surgery. It is suitable for patients with liver cancer lesions confined to the liver, without distant organ metastasis, and other organs in the body that can tolerate the surgery.

Early liver cancer has a certain curability. If patients keep a calm mind and receive timely treatment, they can greatly improve survival and prolong life.

What are the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for liver cancer?

Traditional Chinese medicine for liver cancer treatment may be the most studied, and the effect is relatively certain, but liver cancer progresses quickly, so you should ask an experienced oncologist for treatment, and you are not allowed to try again and again. In addition, it should be accompanied by other treatments. There are many traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for liver cancer treatment. There is a book called "1500 Tumor Prescriptions", which contains 150 prescriptions for liver cancer treatment, and there are many other prescriptions. The following are selected prescriptions for reference:

1. Da Chaihu Decoction with added ingredients: Bupleurum 6g, Scutellaria 3g, Pinellia 4g, Paeonia 3g, Citrus aurantium 2g, Rhubarb 2g, Jujube 3g, Ginger 5g, Rose 3g. Decoction in water.

2. Xiaoyao powder: bupleurum 10g, dried tangerine peel 10g, trillium 10g, atractylodes 10g, safflower 10g, mortar 15g, cilantro 15g, mortar and pestle 15g, curcuma 18g, salvia miltiorrhiza 20g, curcuma 20g, liquorice 3g. Decoction in water.

3. Xiao Chaihu Decoction plus flavor: Bupleurum 10g, Scutellaria 10g, Ginseng 3g, Pinellia 5g, Licorice 3g, Ginger 3g, Saururus 15g, Bamboo Scented Rubber 9g, decocted in water.

4. Rhubarb and Tubiechong Pills: 300g of rhubarb, 60g of scutellaria, 90g of liquorice, 60g of peach kernel (peeled), 60g of apricot kernel (peeled and fried), 120g of peony, 30g of raw rehmannia, 30g of dry lacquer, 60g of horsefly, 60g of leech, and 60g of white grub. Grind them into fine powder, make them into pills with honey, weighing 3g, take 2 to 3 times a day, 1 to 2 pills each time. Use with caution in weak people and those with cachexia.

5. Liver cancer Atractylodes decoction: raw Atractylodes 15g, Zeqi 12g, Shenqu 9g, Cassia bark 6g, Saposhnikovia divaricata 15g, Poria 15g, Artemisia capillaris 30g, Linderae 9g, Magnolia officinalis 6g, Curcuma aromatica 12g, Cyperus rotundus 12g, Corydalis yanhusuo 9g, decocted in water and taken orally.