What are the early clinical manifestations of liver cancer

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When it comes to liver cancer, I believe we all have some understanding. At present, this disease has taken many people's lives. Every year, many people will be checked out of this disease. The key to the treatment of liver cancer is early detection and early treatment. However, because people do not fully understand the symptoms of liver cancer, leading to missing the best treatment period, what are the obvious clinical manifestations of liver cancer in the early stage?

What are the early clinical manifestations of liver cancer

1. Liver cancer prone to cancer fever, often intermittent heat, fearless of cold or shivering, lasting for a long time. Occasionally, persistent high fever without obvious symptoms of toxemia was observed. This kind of cancer fever is sensitive to antipyretic drugs such as indomethacin, naproxen and corticosteroids. However, fever occurs again after stopping the drug, which is easy to be misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, typhoid infection and connective tissue disease, thus delaying the correct diagnosis. The mechanism of cancerous fever may be caused by pyrogen or tumor necrosis factor produced by cancer tissue itself or infiltrating white blood cells. But conversely, the diagnosis must also rule out infection. 　　

2. Diarrhea is the main gastrointestinal symptom in some patients with liver cancer, which is easily misdiagnosed as chronic enteritis or malabsorption syndrome. Diarrhea can also be the first symptom of liver cancer. According to statistics, 5.8% of 3254 patients with liver cancer had diarrhea as the first symptom. 　　

3. Liver cancer patients often feel more fatigue than other tumor patients, which is similar to chronic hepatitis patients. The cause of fatigue is unknown, which may be due to digestive dysfunction, nutrient absorption disorders leading to energy deficiency, or liver cell damage, liver function decline, making metabolic disorders, some toxins can not be inactivated in time, or due to liver cancer tissue necrosis release toxic substances. Weight loss is also a common symptom in patients with liver cancer, due to impaired liver function. The function of digestion and absorption decreased. With the development of the disease, the degree of emaciation can be aggravated, and cachexia appears in severe cases.

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That is to say, the symptoms of patients with early liver cancer are not obvious, nor typical, and it is not easy to be detected by patients. It can be said that if patients with liver cancer are diagnosed by their own symptoms, then liver cancer is generally in the middle and late stages, full of cancer To understand the symptoms of liver cancer, the treatment effect of liver cancer patients will be better.