Early symptoms of liver cancer

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In recent years, people's living standards have improved, and diseases have come to our door. Many patients are troubled by liver cancer. Liver cancer is a kind of malignant tumor disease, which does great harm to human body. The early symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious, so most of them are in the middle and late stage. Here experts hope that you can pay attention to the early symptoms of liver cancer, once found abnormal body, must be treated in time. Next, let's learn about the early symptoms of liver cancer.

Early symptoms of liver cancer

Bleeding phenomenon: often manifested as epistaxis, subcutaneous hemorrhage, mostly due to liver tissue damage, liver failure. Portal hypertension can cause esophageal and gastric varices bleeding. When cancer tissue invades the bile duct of hepatic hilum, it can cause biliary hemorrhage.

Liver pain: is the most common symptom of liver cancer, patients with liver cancer, liver pain often occurs. It is often caused by the rapid growth of hepatoma, which increases the tension of the liver capsule, or the tumor involves the liver capsule. It is often the first symptom of advanced liver cancer. Most of the pain occurred in the right costal hypochondriac region or under the xiphoid process. At the beginning, it was intermittent or persistent dull pain or tingling. The pain can be mild or severe, or relieve or even disappear within a period of time. This is one of the early symptoms of liver cancer.

Jaundice, ascites and pruritus are common symptoms of liver cancer. About 1 / 3 cases have jaundice in the course of onset. The reason of jaundice is that the tumor invades the main intrahepatic bile duct and the hilar lymph node metastasis oppresses the extrahepatic bile duct. Ascites is often caused by the patient's original liver cirrhosis, cancer tissue invading into the vein and forming tumor thrombus, and tumor nodules compressing the portal vein. Ascites tend to accumulate very quickly, can be grass yellow or blood color. Pruritus is a common symptom of liver disease and liver cancer.

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The symptoms of digestive tract are often caused by pathological changes of liver, resulting in the increase of portal vein pressure and dysfunction of digestive tract; Or the enlargement of the tumor compression or involvement of the stomach. These are the early symptoms of liver cancer. Emaciation and fatigue often appear in the middle and late stage of liver cancer. It may be caused by tumor metabolites, biochemical metabolites and decreased food intake.