What should liver cancer patients pay attention to during chemotherapy? How is the effect of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of liver cancer?

What should liver cancer patients pay attention to during chemotherapy?

For liver cancer, due to its hidden early symptoms, rapid development, frequent intrahepatic dissemination and liver cirrhosis, most (more than 60%) patients have lost the chance of surgical resection when they seek medical treatment and rely on drug treatment. Chemotherapy is an option for patients who are unable to undergo surgery.

The main effect of chemotherapy: drugs travel throughout the body through the blood and lymph, and can kill tumor cells scattered throughout the body, metastatic cancer cells, and cancer cells remaining after surgery and radiotherapy. Chemotherapy mainly works by interfering with the anabolism of nucleic acids, or directly interacting with DNA to interfere with its replication, preventing the formation of spindle fibers and inhibiting mitosis, and inhibiting protein synthesis.

Note: Before chemotherapy is started on the patient, a full assessment should be conducted. Appropriate drugs, dosages, routes of administration, administration time and frequency, administration sequence, intervals, etc. should be selected based on the tumor type, stage, and physical condition of the patient. Blood counts, liver, and kidney function should be monitored in a timely manner during chemotherapy. The efficacy of chemotherapy is inversely proportional to the size of the tumor. The smaller the tumor or the fewer cancer cells, the better the efficacy. Therefore, chemotherapy should be used early. At the same time, because tumor cells are resistant to drugs, once started, it cannot be stopped at will without special reasons. It should only be stopped when severe toxic and side effects occur, such as diarrhea more than 5 times a day or bloody diarrhea, toxicity, or other adverse reactions.

The treatment can only be stopped when there is myocardial damage, the cumulative amount of drugs exceeds the effective dose but the tumor has not shrunk, the patient has an infection and fever and the body temperature exceeds 38°C, etc.

How effective is TCM treatment of liver cancer?

Traditional Chinese medicine in my country has a strong theoretical foundation and a long history. Practice has proved that traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in the treatment of tumors and is also widely used in the treatment of liver cancer.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment, from a holistic perspective, uses syndrome differentiation and treatment, which is of great significance in prolonging the patient's survival. As one of the comprehensive treatment methods for liver cancer, it is often combined with surgical resection, hepatic artery embolization chemotherapy, and radiotherapy to treat liver cancer.

Its role is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Protect and promote the recovery of liver function. The important treatment is to protect liver function on the basis of dialectical analysis and reduce the damage to the liver caused by radiotherapy or chemotherapy;

2. Improve the body's ability to tolerate the toxic and side effects of anti-tumor treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can improve the body's immune function, improve the patient's passive absorption function, and enhance the patient's physical fitness;

3. Through syndrome differentiation and treatment, various symptoms of liver cancer can be alleviated, such as pain and cancer fever.

The effect of TCM in treating liver cancer is mainly reflected in prolonging the survival of liver cancer patients and improving the quality of life of patients. Simple TCM treatment rarely achieves the effect of shrinking or eliminating liver cancer. However, prolonging the survival of liver cancer patients is an important efficacy indicator, so TCM treatment is an important method in the comprehensive treatment of liver cancer.