What are the early symptoms and recognition of liver cancer

Update Date: 2023-08-04 Source: Network

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Recently, when I had dinner with a friend, she didn't have much appetite. She lost weight obviously. She felt that she was a lot thinner, and her liver was always in pain. When I went to the hospital, she was found to be in the early stage of liver cancer. Now let me talk about the early symptoms and identification of liver cancer.

What are the early symptoms and recognition of liver cancer

First: symptoms. Early hepatocellular carcinoma often presents as non-specific, more advanced symptoms of liver cancer. The common clinical manifestations include liver pain, abdominal distension, anorexia, fatigue, weight loss, liver or abdominal mass; some patients have fever, jaundice, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding; acute abdominal pain after rupture of liver cancer. There are also metastatic lesions with no obvious symptoms or only symptoms.

Second: physical signs. Early stage liver cancer often has no obvious positive signs or only similar to the signs of liver cirrhosis. Hepatomegaly, jaundice, ascites and other signs usually appear in advanced liver cancer. In addition, patients with liver cirrhosis often have liver palms, spider nevus, male mammary gland enlargement, lower extremity edema, etc. When extrahepatic metastasis occurs, the corresponding signs of each metastasis site may appear.

Third: most of the patients complained of upper abdomen or liver distension, discomfort or dull pain. With the development of the disease, the patients appeared fatigue, poor appetite, emaciation or fever. During physical examination, the enlarged liver or hard and tender nodule can be palpated in the middle and upper abdomen. Anemia, jaundice and ascites may occur in advanced patients.

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Liver cancer patients have certain symptoms in the early stage, such as fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, liver pain or swelling, etc. in addition, the appearance of liver palms and spider nevus has certain significance for the early diagnosis of liver cancer.