What are the symptoms of liver cancer before death

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My colleague had advanced liver cancer. We organized to visit him in the hospital. We were shocked by his current situation. He couldn't get up in bed, gradually became thin, and his hands and feet were swollen. Sometimes he was confused. I only knew that these symptoms were not good. So when I came back, I checked some information about the symptoms of liver cancer before death.

What are the symptoms of liver cancer before death

First: hepatic encephalopathy: at the end of liver cancer, there will be hepatic coma, which may be due to various reasons such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding, infection, hypokalemia, improper drainage of ascites, etc., leading to hepatic encephalopathy, which has low cure rate and high mortality. So to the advanced stage of liver cancer, patients should pay attention to the prevention of various inducing factors of hepatic encephalopathy.

Second: severe pain in liver region: severe pain in liver region occurs because liver tissue is damaged and infiltrated by tumor for a long time, and there are many factors such as local ischemic necrosis of liver tissue, which lead to severe pain in liver region of liver cancer. Especially in the late stage of liver cancer, this kind of pain symptoms will aggravate. Patients with extremely weak constitution of advanced liver cancer will faint and shock because they can't bear such pain. If they can't be treated, they will die.

Third: massive hemorrhage of digestive tract: another important cause of death of liver cancer is hemorrhage of digestive tract. Esophageal varices and gastric varices caused by portal hypertension in late stage of liver cancer. Due to liver function damage and abnormal coagulation function in late stage of liver cancer, esophageal varices, gastric varices or cancer nodules rupture and bleeding are prone to occur, and the incidence is rapid and the risk is high We should pay special attention to the high mortality.

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Now, our treatment of advanced liver cancer aims to alleviate the suffering of patients and make it easier for them to leave the world. In the future, advanced cancer may also be cured, which requires the efforts of our medical workers. At present, what we can do is to make them suffer less.