How to treat liver cancer early

Update Date: 2021-07-08 Source: Network

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An uncle who has a very good relationship with our family was found to have liver cancer in the physical examination organized by the unit. Fortunately, he is still in the early stage, and there is still a lot of room and possibility for treatment. Let's talk about how to treat liver cancer in the early stage.

How to treat liver cancer early

First, the best choice for early liver cancer is surgical resection, which is the best method for the treatment of primary liver cancer. If it is not suitable for surgery, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) can also be used. TACE has good curative effect on liver cancer and can significantly improve the survival rate of patients. TACE is the first choice in non-surgical treatment of liver cancer.

Second, the treatment of liver cancer is still mainly surgery, postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. However, many patients are in advanced stage at the initial diagnosis, and the patients with huge mass or multiple metastases are not suitable for surgery. At this time, gamma knife, chemotherapy, interventional therapy, traditional Chinese medicine, conservative treatment and so on are often used. Targeted therapy can also be used for patients with advanced liver cancer who have no response to chemotherapy. The short-term effect is obvious, but the price is expensive, and it is easy to produce drug resistance.

Third: early liver cancer can be treated by interventional therapy, surgical treatment, let the doctor evaluate the situation and then decide what method to use, traditional Chinese medicine treatment of liver cancer effect is still very good, can improve the patient's immune function, anti-tumor. But we must find a good doctor of traditional Chinese medicine or specialist to use medicine, do not listen to folk prescriptions, it is easy to have problems.

matters needing attention

If the physical condition of patients with early liver cancer still allows, it is best to use surgery, because from the current level of medical treatment, surgical resection is the most effective method, and special attention should be paid after surgery, such as taking traditional Chinese medicine to consolidate the curative effect.