What are the symptoms and treatment of early liver cancer

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My colleague told me that recently he felt pain in his liver area, so he asked me to go to the hospital with him for examination. Unfortunately, the doctor said that my colleague had early liver cancer. Pain and abdominal discomfort were early symptoms. Next, I will talk about the symptoms and treatment of early liver cancer.

What are the symptoms and treatment of early liver cancer

First, the majority of patients with advanced liver cancer with liver pain as the first symptom, the incidence of more than 50%. Pain in the liver region is usually located in the right rib or under the xiphoid process. The nature of pain is intermittent or persistent dull pain. Dull pain or tingling, a period of time before the pain, patients can feel discomfort in the right upper abdomen. Pain can be mild to severe or self relieving in a short time. The main cause of pain is the rapid enlargement of the tumor, compression of the liver capsule, resulting in traction pain. It can also be caused by the tumor necrosis stimulating the liver capsule.

Second: a small number of patients spontaneously or after liver puncture suddenly appeared severe pain in the liver region, mostly due to rupture and bleeding of cancer nodules on the surface of the liver. If accompanied by blood pressure, shock performance, abdominal puncture with bloody fluid, it means that the cancer node rupture bleeding serious. In this case, emergency rescue is needed.

Third: the traditional treatment of liver cancer is the first choice of surgical resection, but not all patients with liver cancer are suitable for surgery. Only patients with good cardiopulmonary function, local liver tumor and no metastasis condition are suitable for surgery. In addition, most of the patients with liver cancer in China have a history of hepatitis and cirrhosis. About 80% of the patients can not be operated for various reasons.

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For patients with early-stage liver cancer, at the beginning, they will feel pain in the liver area, which will lead to abdominal pain and weakness in the whole body. And now doctors for the treatment of this disease is to recommend surgery, early surgical resection of lesions will prevent the deterioration of the disease.