What are the symptoms of liver cancer? Pay attention to these six situations

The incidence of liver cancer in current medicine is very high. In most cases, it is primary liver cancer, which is accompanied by many symptoms, such as obvious pain in the liver, nausea and vomiting in the digestive tract, fever, frequent fatigue, etc. Edema may also occur frequently.

Liver cancer is actually a malignant tumor that occurs in the liver. It is mainly divided into metastatic liver cancer and primary liver cancer. Most of what we talk about in daily life are primary liver cancer, which is also the most common type in clinical practice. According to the latest statistics, there are basically 600,000 liver cancer patients every year in the world. So what are the symptoms of liver cancer?
1. Pain in the liver area <br/>Liver pain is usually located under the right rib or xiphoid process. The nature of the pain is intermittent or persistent dull pain. For a period of time before the pain, the patient may feel discomfort in the right upper abdomen. The pain can be relieved on its own in a short time, but if the situation is more serious, the effect of relief in a short time will not be very good.
2. Digestive tract symptoms <br/>Many liver cancer patients will experience obvious symptoms of poisoning such as loss of appetite, indigestion, nausea and vomiting after meals. These are the most common symptoms of hepatocellular carcinoma, among which anorexia and diarrhea are the most common. It has been reported at home and abroad that the incidence rate is high and it is easy to be misdiagnosed as chronic enteritis.
3. Fever <br/>A large proportion of liver cancer patients may have a fever. Most fevers are moderate to low, and a few patients may have a high fever, exceeding 39 degrees Celsius, and generally do not have chills. The fever of hepatocellular carcinoma is mostly cancerous fever, which is caused by the heat source entering the human blood circulation after the tumor tissue necrosis.
4. Frequent fatigue <br/>Hepatocellular carcinoma patients often feel tired compared to other tumor patients, similar to patients with chronic hepatitis. Weight loss is also a common symptom of liver cancer patients due to liver damage and decreased digestion and absorption function. As the disease progresses, the degree of weight loss will worsen, and in severe cases, it will also cause malignant lesions.
5. Bleeding tendency <br/>Liver cancer patients also have obvious bleeding tendency, such as subcutaneous ecchymosis, gingival bleeding, etc., and these phenomena are also caused by liver damage, so they should also be taken seriously. Gastrointestinal bleeding is common, mainly caused by esophageal varices caused by portal hypertension. In fact, gastrointestinal bleeding is also the main cause of death in liver cancer patients.
6. Lower limb edema <br/>Patients with ascites due to liver cancer often have lower limb edema, which occurs in the ankle joints in mild cases and can spread to the entire lower limbs in severe cases. The main cause of lower limb edema is ascites compressing the lower limb veins or cancer thrombus blocking the veins, hindering venous return. Low plasma albumin can also cause mild edema.