What are the early symptoms of liver cancer? Introduction to the scientific diagnostic criteria for liver cancer

Liver cancer is difficult to treat because its early symptoms are not obvious and are easily ignored. With the continuous development of society, people's lives are not necessarily free from various diseases. On the contrary, the incidence of liver cancer is increasing year by year, which is related to the changes in people's lifestyles and environmental pollution. Liver cancer is a common malignant tumor disease with great harm. Let's take a look at the symptoms of this disease.

The early symptoms of liver cancer are as follows:

1. Liver pain. Liver cancer may cause sudden severe abdominal pain and peritoneal irritation, which may be caused by necrosis of tumor nodules or bleeding into the abdominal cavity. All of the above are early symptoms of liver cancer. There may be persistent or intermittent pain in the liver area, which may sometimes be aggravated by changes in body position. It may radiate to the back or right shoulder.

2. Enlarged liver, enlarged spleen, and fever. Enlarged liver is often hard, with irregular surface, and nodules of varying sizes on the edge. Patients with liver cancer and cirrhosis. Splenic metastasis is extremely rare. Giant liver cancer can sometimes deform the liver, making it difficult to distinguish during palpation. Splenomegaly mostly occurs in. Fever is quite common in liver cancer patients, which may be caused by ischemic necrosis of cancer tissue, absorption of necrotic products, and concurrent infection. 90% of liver cancer patients have enlarged liver.

3. Jaundice, ascites, and skin itching. Skin itching is a common symptom of patients with liver disease and liver cancer.

Clinically, the criteria for diagnosing liver cancer are as follows:

1. AFp≤400μg/L, two imaging blood tests confirmed the presence of characteristic space-occupying lesions of liver cancer, or two liver cancer markers were positive and one imaging test revealed the presence of characteristic space-occupying lesions of liver cancer.

2. AFp>400μg/L can rule out active liver disease, pregnancy, embryonic tumors of the reproductive system and metastatic liver cancer.

3. Patients with clinical manifestations of liver cancer and confirmed liver cancer metastasis and who can exclude metastatic liver cancer.

In today's happy life, we must ensure our health. The above are the symptoms and diagnostic criteria of liver cancer summarized by experts. We hope that patients and friends can pay great attention to it. Being safe and sound is a blessing.