How to reexamine patients with liver cancer after treatment? Some common sense about reexamination of liver cancer

Many patients are prone to misunderstandings when treating liver cancer, thinking that they don’t need to pay attention to many issues after treatment. In fact, this is not the case. Follow-up examinations after liver cancer treatment are critical issues to prevent liver cancer from worsening and spreading, which can lead to poor treatment results.

Follow-up examination is an important measure in the process of cancer treatment, especially for patients after chemotherapy. Many patients think that they are cured after chemotherapy and ignore follow-up examination, which is very dangerous. Generally, cancer patients should have a follow-up examination every 3 months within 2 years after completing treatment, and then every 6 months, and once a year after 5 years.

At present, the items of reexamination generally include: whether there is lymphadenopathy in the whole body, whether there is a local mass, three routine tests of blood, urine and stool, blood biochemistry, isotope, B-ultrasound, X-ray film examination, and CT and MRI if necessary. Lungs, liver, brain, bones and adrenal glands are the parts where cancer cells are easy to metastasize, so special attention should be paid. The patient's immune status, such as immunoglobulin, should also be checked. When reexamining, it is best for the patient to go to the original hospital for treatment, because there is the patient's treatment information there, which is conducive to making a correct judgment on the condition and timely treatment.

Whether it is after surgery or after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it is not the end of treatment for cancer patients. Because cancer is different from other diseases, it is a disease that is prone to recurrence. We cannot simply assume that the disappearance of clinical symptoms means recovery, nor can we assume that the body is recovered when the lesion disappears. Therefore, cancer patients should still be vigilant during the recovery period, pay attention to minor changes in the body, and properly adjust their lives to ensure the thoroughness of treatment.

Liver cancer is a disease with a high mortality rate, so we must not ignore it. Many patients do not have follow-up examinations after treatment, which has no effect on the treatment of the disease. Therefore, we must attach importance to follow-up examinations and actively carry out treatment.