Pre death symptoms of liver cancer patients?
summary
As we all know, liver cancer is a very terrible malignant tumor disease, and once the disease reaches the advanced stage, it will become very serious, and the difficulty of treatment will increase, so the late mortality is still very high. Let's take a look at the symptoms of liver cancer at the end of its life?
Pre death symptoms of liver cancer patients?
From late stage of liver cancer to death stage, the symptoms are obvious, such as weight loss, swelling of hands and feet, unclear speech, rapid heartbeat, fever, abdominal distension, diarrhea, severe cases will have hematemesis, and the symptoms of late stage of liver cancer before death are usually not too different. The last-minute symptoms of patients with advanced liver cancer are not a single phenomenon, but the failure of various systems and organs of the human body.
Liver cancer patients are often accompanied by bleeding gums, subcutaneous ecchymosis and other bleeding tendency, the main reason is due to liver function damage, coagulation dysfunction, etc., which is more common in liver cancer patients with cirrhosis, in which the gastrointestinal bleeding is more common, the bleeding reason is caused by varices of esophageal and gastric fundus caused by venous hypertension. In fact, gastrointestinal bleeding is also the main cause of death in patients with liver cancer.
More than half of the patients with liver cancer have liver pain. Most of them have persistent distending pain or dull pain. If the diaphragm is invaded, the pain may involve the right shoulder; Liver pain is caused by the rapid growth of tumor and the tension of local liver capsule. If the tumor grows slowly, it can be painless or only slightly dull. If the cancer nodules on the surface of the liver rupture, necrotic cancer tissue and blood flow into the abdominal cavity, sudden pain, produce symptoms and signs of peritonitis. If the amount of bleeding is large, it can cause syncope and shock.
matters needing attention
Liver cancer patients with ascites not only have to quit smoking and alcohol, but also need active treatment, because we know that the alcohol in the alcohol through the body metabolism produces formaldehyde not only harm the liver, but also aggravate the symptoms of liver cancer.