What symptom does liver cancer have?

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Liver cancer is a disease with high mortality. The onset of liver cancer is often occult. At this time, the patient has neither obvious symptoms nor corresponding signs of tumor patients. This period is called subclinical stage. Once the patients with liver cancer go to the hospital for treatment due to symptoms, most of them have entered the middle and late stage. What symptom does liver cancer have? I'd like to share my views with you.

What symptom does liver cancer have?

Liver pain: the most common pain is intermittent or persistent obtuse angle or distending pain. The rapid growth of tumor will tighten the liver capsule and invade the diaphragm, causing pain, which can radiate to the right shoulder or right back; The right back pain may be caused by the tumor growing backward to the right; Sudden onset of severe abdominal pain and peritoneal irritation suggests subcapsular hemorrhage or abdominal rupture.

Gastrointestinal symptoms: loss of appetite, dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea are easily ignored due to lack of specificity. Fatigue, emaciation, general weakness, a few late patients can be cachexia. Fever: generally low fever, occasionally more than 39 ℃, continuous fever, afternoon low fever or relaxation type high fever. Fever is related to the absorption of tumor necrosis products. Bile duct infection may occur when the tumor compresses or invades the bile duct.

Metastasis symptoms: there are corresponding symptoms at the place of tumor metastasis, which sometimes become the initial symptoms of liver cancer. If it is transferred to the lung, it can cause cough and hemoptysis; Pleural metastasis can cause chest pain and bloody pleural effusion; Obstruction of pulmonary artery or branches by tumor thrombus may cause pulmonary infarction, which may cause severe dyspnea and chest pain; Obstruction of inferior vena cava by tumor thrombus can cause severe edema of lower limbs and even decrease of blood pressure; Budd Chiari syndrome and edema of lower extremities may occur in patients with hepatic vein obstruction; Metastasis to bone may cause local pain or pathological fracture; Transfer to the spine or compression of the spinal nerve can cause local pain and paraplegia; Intracranial metastases may present corresponding localized symptoms and signs, such as intracranial hypertension. Intracranial hypertension can cause brain hernia and cause death.

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The early symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious, but the middle and late symptoms are obvious. If found, please see a doctor as soon as possible, so as not to delay the treatment.