How to check for liver cancer

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Liver cancer is a terrible disease. The harm of liver cancer to patients is relatively serious. My uncle suffers from liver cancer. Patients with liver cancer must receive treatment as soon as possible. Now I will tell you about how to check liver cancer, so that you can find and treat this disease as soon as possible.

How to check for liver cancer

First, patients with liver cancer are asymptomatic in the early stage. Once there are symptoms such as liver pain, abdominal distension, abdominal mass, jaundice, ascites and so on, most of them are in the late stage. Therefore, it is difficult to detect HCC in early stage.

Second, the early diagnosis of liver cancer is no longer a difficult problem for modern medicine. About 70% of patients with liver cancer will have elevated serum AFP in the early stage, which is progressive. B-ultrasound, CT, MRI and so on can be detected about 1 cm in diameter of liver cancer nodules.

Third, the occurrence of liver cancer is related to posthepatitic cirrhosis, heredity, environmental factors and eating habits. About 70% of liver cancer patients have a history of hepatitis B virus infection.

matters needing attention

Patients with liver cancer should face and treat the disease with positive and optimistic attitude, those with long-term work pressure, heavy workload or long-term mental depression, and those with organ transplantation. It is an effective method for early detection of liver cancer to identify the above-mentioned high-risk groups and conduct regular and continuous follow-up examination and observation.