What are the possible symptoms of early liver cancer? Summary of atypical symptoms of early liver cancer

When people think of liver cancer, they think of symptoms such as liver pain, jaundice, abdominal distension, and weight loss. In fact, liver cancer has a variety of manifestations, and there are often no typical clinical symptoms in the early stages, so it is easy to be ignored.

Chronic cough is caused by liver cancer

Early symptoms of liver cancer are atypical

There are two main factors. One is that during breathing, liver tumors stimulate the diaphragm, causing lung reflexes and coughing. The other is that liver cancer metastasizes to the lungs and causes coughing. The classic Chinese medicine book "Huangdi Neijing" points out that "all the internal organs can cause coughing, not just the lungs." Therefore, if the cough is not cured for a long time, a comprehensive examination should be conducted to rule out diseases caused by other organs.

The liver is the largest biochemical factory in the human body. Due to the powerful biochemical compensatory function of the liver, early liver cancer often lacks typical clinical symptoms. Special symptoms will not appear until the tumor is large or liver function is damaged. In addition to coughing, some patients will experience back pain, which may be caused by the protruding liver tumor irritating the diaphragm or metastatic tumors; some patients have their stomach and duodenum compressed by the protruding tumor, and feel pain when eating. They think it is indigestion and treat it as a stomach disease, which delays the disease; some liver cancer patients will have abdominal pain, bloating, ascites and other symptoms, which is because the portal vein is blocked by cancer thrombus. Therefore, chronic cough, back pain, stomach pain, bloating, abdominal pain, ascites, etc. that have not been cured for a long time need to be alert to the possibility of tumors.