How to treat advanced liver cancer

How to treat advanced liver cancer? Liver cancer is a very tricky disease in many ways. Its difficulty lies not only in the difficulty of the treatment process, but also in the complexity of the treatment process and the inappropriate choices caused by the diversity of therapies. Especially in the advanced stage of liver cancer, liver cancer patients are at a loss and don’t know how to treat themselves reasonably. So the following will introduce how to treat advanced liver cancer to help everyone solve their problems.

1. Surgical treatment

Surgery is the first choice and the most effective method for treating liver cancer. Surgical methods include radical liver resection, palliative liver resection, etc.

For liver cancer that cannot be removed, treatments such as intraoperative hepatic artery ligation, hepatic artery chemoembolization, radiofrequency, cryosurgery, laser, and microwave can be used according to specific circumstances and have certain effects. Primary liver cancer is also one of the indications for liver transplantation.

2. Chemotherapy

If the laparotomy reveals that the tumor cannot be removed, or as a follow-up treatment for palliative tumor resection, regional chemoembolization can be performed by placing a pump (subcutaneous buried perfusion device) in the hepatic artery and/or portal vein. For those who are estimated to be unresectable by surgery, radiological intervention can also be performed, with selective cannulation through the femoral artery to the hepatic artery, and injection of embolic agents (commonly used such as iodized oil) and anticancer drugs for chemoembolization. Some patients may therefore have the opportunity for surgical resection.

3. Radiation therapy

For patients with good general condition, good liver function, no cirrhosis, no jaundice, ascites, hypersplenism and esophageal varices, relatively localized cancer, no distant metastasis, and who are not suitable for surgical resection or have recurrence after surgery, comprehensive treatment with radiation as the main method can be used.

4. Biological therapy

Commonly used ones include immune RNA, interferon, interleukin-2, thymosin, etc., which can be used in combination with chemotherapy.

In addition, traditional Chinese medicine is also a good choice. It adopts the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the method of attacking and supplementing at the same time, and is often used in conjunction with other therapies to improve the body's resistance to disease, improve the overall condition and symptoms, and reduce the adverse reactions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.