What are the advanced symptoms of hepatocarcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma

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My uncle's health was not very good when he was young. Now he is old and his health is getting worse and worse. These days, he always has liver pain and doesn't want to eat. After going to the hospital for examination, he found that he had liver cancer and cholangiocarcinoma. Let me tell you the symptoms of advanced liver cancer and cholangiocarcinoma.

What are the advanced symptoms of hepatocarcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma

First: bleeding tendency. Patients with liver cancer often have bleeding tendency such as gingival bleeding and subcutaneous ecchymosis, which is mainly caused by liver function damage and abnormal coagulation function, especially in patients with liver cancer and cirrhosis. Gastrointestinal bleeding is more common, mainly due to esophageal and gastric varices caused by portal hypertension.

Second: digestive tract symptoms, loss of appetite, after meals on the stomach full. Warm air, indigestion and nausea are common gastrointestinal symptoms of liver cancer, among which anorexia and abdominal distension are the most common. Diarrhea is also a common gastrointestinal symptom of liver cancer, which has been reported at home and abroad. The incidence of diarrhea is high, and it is easy to be mistaken for chronic enteritis. Portal hypertension and intestinal dysfunction caused by tumor thrombus in portal vein or hepatic vein can lead to abdominal distension and increased frequency of defecation. Abdominal distension can also be caused by ascites. Gastrointestinal dysfunction can also lead to dyspepsia, warm, nausea and other symptoms.

Third: acute abdomen, cancer nodules rupture usually cause liver pain, physical examination of liver area has obvious tenderness, for liver capsule stimulation symptoms. Some patients with ruptured tumor nodules showed acute abdominal pain accompanied with peritoneal irritation, which was easily misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. Abdominal pain caused by rupture of cancer nodules is usually accompanied by blood pressure drop or even shock, which is different from general acute peritonitis.

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In the advanced stage of hepatocarcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma, the patient's condition is already very serious. Under normal circumstances, the patient may have bleeding in some parts of the body, and loss of appetite, poor digestion, liver pain, severe abdominal pain or even shock, so timely treatment is needed.