Symptoms of liver cancer and cirrhosis

summary

When I went to the hospital a few days ago, I found liver cirrhosis, but I recognized it as liver cancer. I was sad for several days. I didn't understand until the doctor told me the difference between them. Next, I'll tell you the difference between the two diseases. Don't confuse them.

Symptoms of liver cancer and cirrhosis

Symptom 1: we can distinguish them from their causes. Liver cirrhosis is caused by one or more reasons for long-term and repeated damage to the liver. The occurrence of liver cancer is mainly related to chronic liver disease (mainly hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infection), aflatoxin, drinking water pollution, long-term alcoholism, liver fluke and other factors.

Symptom 2: you can do imaging examination, which is also a way to distinguish them. B-ultrasound and other imaging examination results of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer can see that the liver is obviously enlarged, the liver surface is uneven, the liver edge angle is blunt or irregular, but the imaging examination results of liver cancer can also see nodules or huge masses of different sizes.

Symptom 3: their complications are not the same, we must carefully check, the main complications of liver cirrhosis are upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, secondary infection, canceration, etc.; and liver cancer, in addition to the above complications, can also appear cancer nodule rupture, liver failure and bloody chest, ascites and other serious complications.

matters needing attention

Patients can eat more light food, easy to digest, do not eat more high protein or high fat things, this will increase the burden of our liver and kidney, and may even induce us to coma, the medical name is hepatic encephalopathy (due to the decline of liver detoxification ability, excessive protein decomposition produces a lot of ammonia accumulation in the blood, into the brain to make the patient sick) Mental symptoms, even coma, death). In addition, spicy and hard food should also be avoided, because patients with primary liver cancer are prone to portal vein tumor thrombus, causing portal hypertension, esophageal and gastric varices. Once the diet is improper, it can cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding and endanger life.