Early symptoms and manifestations of hepatocellular carcinoma

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My grandfather is suffering from LETV and depression during this period of time, and people obviously have no spirit. He went to the hospital for examination and found that liver cancer is in the early stage, so I'll give you a detailed introduction of the early symptoms and manifestations of liver cancer.

Early symptoms and manifestations of hepatocellular carcinoma

First of all, liver cancer patients will have a significant loss of appetite: abdominal stuffy, indigestion, sometimes nausea, vomiting. Liver pain: there may be persistent or intermittent pain in the liver area, sometimes aggravated by postural changes. It can radiate to the back or right shoulder. Severe abdominal pain and peritoneum irritation may occur suddenly in patients with advanced liver cancer, which may be caused by necrosis of tumor nodules or bleeding into abdominal cavity. At this time, patients often with acute abdomen to the emergency room.

Secondly, liver cancer patients in the early time will appear jaundice, ascites, skin itching: is a common symptom of liver cancer. About 1 / 3 cases have jaundice in the course of onset. The reason of jaundice is that the tumor invades the main intrahepatic bile duct and the hilar lymph node metastasis oppresses the extrahepatic bile duct. Ascites is often caused by the patient's original liver cirrhosis, cancer tissue invading into the vein and forming tumor thrombus, and tumor nodules compressing the portal vein. Ascites tend to accumulate very quickly, can be grass yellow or blood color. Pruritus is a common symptom of liver disease and liver cancer.

Finally, liver cancer patients will have bleeding phenomenon, often manifested as epistaxis, subcutaneous bleeding, mostly due to liver tissue damage, liver failure. Portal hypertension can cause esophageal and gastric varices bleeding. When cancer tissue invades the bile duct of hepatic hilum, it can cause biliary hemorrhage. Hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, fever.

matters needing attention

Liver cancer can lead to damage of liver function and various gastrointestinal symptoms, so it is necessary to ensure that the food is easy to digest. When patients have poor appetite, they can eat less and more meals, eat liquid or semi liquid food, avoid hard, overheated or too cold food, and limit the intake of fatty meat and other foods with high cholesterol. The lettuce element in lettuce can promote the secretion of gastric juice, digestive enzymes and bile, which can enhance the appetite of patients.