What to do early liver cancer examination

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In people's eyes, liver cancer is a sign of death. In fact, with the progress of medicine, early liver cancer can be cured, but once it develops to the late stage, there is really no medicine to cure. Therefore, usually people should pay more attention to their liver signal, early detection and early treatment, so as not to let liver cancer affect our life too much. What are the methods of early liver cancer examination

What to do early liver cancer examination

First, ultrasound examination: B-ultrasound examination is economical and convenient, can show the size, shape and location of the tumor, the diagnostic accuracy is about 90%. The detection rate of liver lesions is also relatively high. Generally speaking, it takes about 4-6 months for liver cancer to grow from 1 cm to 3 cm. So if you don't see liver cancer in the first B-ultrasound examination, if you take another photo after 4-6 months, the liver cancer should still be less than 3cm, and the effect of treatment should be good. 　　

Second, CT: CT examination of liver cancer is a very important means, in the country to do more. However, when the diameter of liver cancer is less than 2 cm or the density is similar to normal liver parenchyma, CT is difficult to show. It is difficult to distinguish primary and secondary liver cancer. 　　

Third, PET-CT: PET-CT is one of the examination items for early detection of liver cancer. Patients with hepatitis B and other conditions can consider examination. PET-CT is a functional molecular imaging system that integrates pet and CT. It can not only accurately locate the lesions by CT morphological imaging, but also reflect the biochemical metabolism information of liver space occupying tissue by PET functional imaging. At the same time, whole body scanning can understand the overall situation and evaluate the metastasis, so as to achieve the purpose of early detection of lesions, and understand the status of tumor before and after treatment Changes in size and metabolism.

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For our health and a better life, we should not be afraid of trouble, we must do regular checks, so that we can find liver cancer or other diseases in time, so as to treat as soon as possible, achieve early recovery, away from the suffering of pain. However, it is suggested that friends should pay more attention to their living habits and do a good job in prevention.