What is the most effective way to treat liver cancer? The three magic weapons for treating liver cancer

What are the three magic weapons for treating liver cancer? Liver cancer is a relatively common tumor, which can be benign or malignant. With the advancement of modern medicine, there are many ways to treat liver cancer. The three typical methods are: surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy intervention. The specific introduction is as follows:

The "three magic weapons" for treating liver cancer

Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the "three magic weapons" for treating cancer, and are also the most commonly used and important treatments for liver cancer.

1. Surgical treatment

To date, surgical resection is still the most commonly used and most effective treatment for malignant tumors, including liver cancer, and is the main way for most cancer patients to be cured. Since liver cancer is often discovered late, or patients cannot tolerate surgery due to combined liver cirrhosis, the resection rate is not high, so early prevention, early detection, and early treatment are advocated. With the continuous deepening of research on early detection and treatment of liver cancer, the diagnostic level and technology are constantly improving, liver cancer can be detected in the early, asymptomatic stage, which can give more and more early liver cancer patients the opportunity to undergo surgical resection, and the effect is significantly improved.

2. Radiation therapy

Radiotherapy is a treatment method that uses radiation to directly kill pathogenic tumor cells. In the past, radiotherapy was the first choice for non-surgical treatment of liver cancer, but in recent years it has become less popular due to the development of radiointervention and other local treatments.

Radiotherapy is suitable for patients whose liver tumors cannot be removed and who are not suitable or willing to undergo radiotherapy intervention. Clinical practice in recent years has found that the combination of radiotherapy and radiotherapy intervention can significantly improve the efficacy of radiotherapy. In addition, radiotherapy for local recurrence, lymph node metastasis and adrenal metastasis can achieve better results. The combination of radiotherapy with surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine and other treatment methods is conducive to further improving the efficacy.

3. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy

Chemotherapy is the application of chemical drugs for treatment. In the past half century, chemotherapy has developed from the single application of a few chemotherapy drugs to the combined application of multiple drugs. In addition to the original intravenous systemic chemotherapy, new methods of administration have also emerged, such as adjuvant chemotherapy, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and special chemotherapy (arterial, intracavitary perfusion, etc.). Since chemotherapy drugs can cause damage to the patient's body while destroying cancer cells, it is currently not recommended to use systemic intravenous chemotherapy for liver cancer patients in clinical practice, but to use less harmful radiological interventional therapy.

Radiological interventional therapy is a new chemotherapy approach developed in recent years. Its method is to enter the hepatic artery that supplies blood to liver cancer through a catheter, inject chemotherapy drugs, increase local drug concentration and thus improve efficacy, while reducing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy drugs on other parts of the body.

Radiological interventional therapy is mainly suitable for patients with liver cancer who are not in a bad condition and cannot undergo surgery. At present, this method has become the first choice for non-surgical treatment of patients with unresectable liver cancer. Its disadvantages are that it is not effective for secondary liver cancer and some primary liver cancers, and it can cause liver damage.