What are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer? These 6 symptoms are common in advanced liver cancer

Introduction: Liver cancer is a very common disease nowadays. Everyone is familiar with this disease. This disease has a great impact on the lives of our patients. The following is a summary of the symptoms of late-stage liver cancer.

1. Fever

A considerable number of liver cancer patients will experience sweating and fever. Most of the fevers are low to moderate, and a few patients may have high fevers, above 39°C, usually without chills.

2. Weight loss and fatigue

Liver cancer patients often feel more fatigued than other tumor patients. Weight loss is also a common symptom of liver cancer patients, which is caused by damaged liver function and decreased digestion and absorption function. As the disease progresses, the weight loss may worsen, and cachexia may occur in severe cases.

3. Bleeding tendency

Liver cancer patients often have bleeding gums, subcutaneous ecchymoses and other bleeding tendencies. Gastrointestinal bleeding is more common, mainly due to portal hypertension leading to esophageal varices. In fact, gastrointestinal bleeding is also the main cause of death in liver cancer patients.

4. Digestive tract symptoms

Loss of appetite and upper abdominal fullness after meals. Belching, indigestion, and nausea are common digestive tract symptoms of liver cancer, among which loss of appetite and abdominal distension are the most common.

5. Lower limb edema

Patients with liver cancer and ascites often have lower limb edema, which occurs in the ankles in mild cases and can spread to the entire lower limbs in severe cases.

6. Acute abdomen

The rupture of cancerous nodules usually causes pain in the liver area. During physical examination, there is obvious tenderness in the liver area, which is a symptom of irritation of the liver capsule.

7. Pain in the liver area

The majority of patients with advanced liver cancer present with pain in the liver area as the first symptom, with an incidence rate of over 50%. Pain in the liver area is generally located in the right ribs or under the xiphoid process, and the pain is intermittent or continuous dull pain or stabbing pain. Before the pain, the patient may feel discomfort in the right upper abdomen, which may be mild or severe or relieved on its own in the short term.

After reading the above content, I believe we all have a relevant understanding of this disease. I hope that the above introduction can bring you a lot of help. If you still have something you don’t understand, you can directly consult our experts. We have professional doctors to explain some knowledge about the disease to you.