What is the treatment of liver cancer?

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The mortality of liver cancer is the third in the mortality of malignant tumor. The radical treatment of liver cancer is also a common concern of the medical community and patients. The early symptoms of HCC were not obvious, but the late symptoms were mainly liver pain, fatigue, emaciation, jaundice, ascites and so on. In clinical practice, western medicine surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine are generally adopted, but the cure rate of advanced patients is low due to the spread of cancer cells, so it is necessary to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of liver cancer. What is the treatment of liver cancer? Let's talk about it

What is the treatment of liver cancer?

Surgical treatment often depends on the patient's general condition, degree of liver cirrhosis, location and size of tumor, such as segmental hepatectomy, local hepatectomy, lobectomy, hemihepatectomy, and trilobectomy. However, the risk of surgical treatment is high, the cost is high, and there are obvious side effects.

Liver transplantation liver transplantation is a more effective method for the treatment of liver cancer, but there are serious limitations, the first is the lack of liver source, the second is the operation risk, side effects, need lifelong drug maintenance, easy to produce immune rejection, there is also ethical pressure, the use is very limited.

Interventional therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a kind of regional local chemotherapy by injecting anticancer drugs or embolic agents into hepatic artery through femoral artery catheterization. Interventional therapy has a certain curative effect, but the curative effect is not satisfactory for patients with large tumor mass, and the normal liver cells are still damaged, and a few patients even have liver dysfunction.

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In conclusion, liver cancer should be resected sooner or later, and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization is the first choice for unresectable patients. Intratumoral injection of anhydrous alcohol is suitable for small hepatocellular carcinoma with poor liver function and is not suitable for operation; In order to kill tumor cells and reduce tumor load, multi-mode treatment with ligation of hepatic artery or transcatheter arterial chemoembolization should be used for medium-term large liver cancer. After the tumor shrinks, two-step or sequential surgical resection should be performed. It is expected to improve the symptoms and prolong the survival time of patients with advanced liver cancer.