Which liver diseases will turn into liver cancer if they are not treated properly? What are the symptoms of hepatitis turning into liver cancer?

Data shows that many liver cancer patients are found to have mild or severe liver diseases before being diagnosed. Clinical studies have also found that some liver diseases have a tendency to transform into cancer, especially those patients who have not received proper treatment. The possibility of liver disease transforming into cancer is higher. So which liver diseases will transform into liver cancer if they are not treated properly, and what are the symptoms of the body when hepatitis transforms into liver cancer? Chen Minshan, chief physician of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Center of Sun Yat-sen University, will explain it to us in detail below.

Which liver diseases may turn into liver cancer if not treated properly?

Improper treatment of liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and fatty liver can turn into liver cancer. Patients with long-term chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and fatty liver, if combined with biliary infection and bile duct inflammation during treatment, recurrent cholangitis is often more likely to be combined with cholangiocarcinoma, and then liver cancer. There is no way to judge under what circumstances liver disease will turn into liver cancer, but patients with underlying liver disease are often likely to turn into liver cancer. Therefore, it is essential to do a good personal physical examination. Normal people need to have a physical examination once a year. For hepatitis B virus carriers, whether it is big three positive or small three positive, they must have an ultrasound and blood test every six months.

What are the physical symptoms when hepatitis turns into liver cancer?

There will be no physical symptoms when hepatitis turns into liver cancer. Hepatitis often turns into liver cancer without any physical symptoms, and it can only be known through physical examination. After liver cancer reaches the middle stage, surgery is still the main treatment. In addition, there are also local ablation therapy, radiotherapy, intervention and other treatment methods, which also play a good therapeutic role in some cases. If surgical treatment is not possible, hepatic artery perfusion, muscle treatment, and combined targeted drug treatment can be used to make the tumor reach the standard for surgical resection as much as possible. Otherwise, the main treatment goal is to consider prolonging the patient's survival.

According to Dr. Chen Minshan's answer, we discovered a very scary fact: we don't get any hint when hepatitis turns into cancer. The scary thing about this problem is that if a patient who didn't have hepatitis originally had adverse reactions to the liver, they might seek medical attention and hopefully be diagnosed with liver cancer in the early to mid-stages. But when a patient who originally had hepatitis had similar reactions, they would only think it was an acute attack of hepatitis and not think of the possibility of cancer.