What are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer

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Recently, my father, a colleague in the company, unfortunately found advanced liver cancer. But because he didn't know the disease and how he suffered from advanced liver cancer, he wanted to know the symptoms of advanced liver cancer, so he consulted the doctor and got the relevant information. Now we will learn about the symptoms of advanced liver cancer in the following popular science.

What are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer

First: what are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer? Advanced liver cancer will show pain symptoms. The most common symptoms of advanced liver cancer are intermittent and persistent, dull pain or distending pain. The symptoms of advanced liver cancer are caused by the rapid growth of cancer and the tightening of liver capsule. The tumor invaded the diaphragm and the pain could radiate to the right shoulder or back. Right back pain can be caused by tumors growing backward to the right. The symptoms of this advanced stage of liver cancer suddenly appeared as severe abdominal pain and peritoneal irritation, which indicated that the tumor nodules had subcapsular hemorrhage or burst into the abdominal cavity.

Second: jaundice is a common sign in liver cancer, diffuse liver cancer and cholangiocarcinoma are the most prone to jaundice. Jaundice is usually caused by bile duct compression or cancer invading into bile duct, or by hilar metastasis and lymph node enlargement. A small number of patients with liver cancer tissue to grow into the bile duct, the mass will block the bile duct, causing obstructive jaundice.

Third, the endocrine or metabolic syndrome caused by abnormal metabolism of liver cancer or various effects of cancer tissue on the body is called cancer associated syndrome, which sometimes precedes the symptoms of liver cancer itself. Spontaneous hypoglycemia, polycythemia, hyperlipidemia and hypercalcemia were the most common. Patients with advanced liver cancer often show fatigue, emaciation, general weakness and other symptoms of advanced liver cancer. In the late stage, a few patients may present cachexia.

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Therefore, for advanced liver cancer, the symptoms and harm are relatively large, I hope that patients in the treatment process must be strong, maintain an optimistic heart, actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, so as to reduce their own pain and achieve better treatment effect.