What early symptoms are patients with liver cancer likely to show? Patients with early liver cancer are likely to show 5 symptoms

What early symptoms are liver cancer patients likely to show?

1. Fever

A considerable number of patients will experience sweating and fever, most of which are low to moderate fever, and a few patients may have high fever, above 39°C. Generally, the symptoms of liver cancer are not accompanied by chills. The fever of liver cancer is mostly cancer fever, which is caused by the release of pyrogens into the blood circulation after tumor tissue necrosis.

2. Weight loss and fatigue

The symptoms of liver cancer are often more fatigue than those of other tumor patients, which is similar to that of chronic hepatitis patients. The cause of fatigue is unknown, but it may be due to digestive disorders, nutrient absorption disorders leading to insufficient energy, or liver cell damage leading to decreased liver function, resulting in metabolic disorders, failure to inactivate certain toxins in time, or the release of toxic substances due to liver cancer tissue necrosis.

3. Lower limb edema

Patients with liver cancer symptoms and ascites often have lower limb edema, which can occur at the ankles in mild cases and spread to the entire lower limbs in severe cases. Clinically, some patients have been seen with severe lower limb edema, with fluid oozing out of the thigh skin.

4. Digestive tract symptoms

Loss of appetite, worse after meals. Upper abdominal distension. Warm breath, indigestion, nausea, fatigue, weight loss, etc. are the early digestive tract symptoms of liver cancer, among which loss of appetite and abdominal distension are the most common. Diarrhea is also a common early symptom of liver cancer.

5. Other symptoms

The pain in the right upper abdomen is mainly characterized by persistent dull pain in the liver area, especially at night and after fatigue. Low-grade fever is often of unknown cause. The clinical manifestations of liver cancer are very atypical. Some patients may seek medical treatment with prominent symptoms such as high fever, jaundice, and acute abdomen, and some even come to the hospital for symptoms caused by metastatic lesions.