Early detection of liver cancer

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My friend always tells me that he has been unable to eat recently, and he has no appetite for greasy food. At the weekend, I took him to the hospital for a physical examination, and the result was early liver cancer. Next, I will talk about how to detect liver cancer in the early stage.

Early detection of liver cancer

First, the symptoms of early liver cancer are nonspecific, while the symptoms of middle and late liver cancer are more common. The common clinical manifestations include liver pain, abdominal distension, anorexia, fatigue, emaciation, progressive hepatomegaly or upper abdominal mass, etc.; some patients have low fever, jaundice, diarrhea, upper gastrointestinal bleeding; acute abdomen after rupture of liver cancer, etc.

Second, there are also symptoms that are not obvious or only manifested as metastases. Early stage liver cancer often has no obvious positive signs or only similar to cirrhosis. Hepatomegaly, jaundice, ascites and other signs usually appear in advanced liver cancer. In addition, liver palms, spider nevi, male mammary gland enlargement, lower extremity edema and so on are common in patients with liver cirrhosis. When extrahepatic metastasis occurs, the corresponding signs of each metastasis site may appear.

Third, the determination of serum alpha fetoprotein has relative specificity in the diagnosis of this disease. If the serum AFP level is more than 400 μ g / L by radioimmunoassay and pregnancy and active liver disease can be excluded, the diagnosis of liver cancer can be considered. About 30% of HCC patients are AFP negative. The positive rate of AFP heteroplasm can be significantly increased by detecting AFP heteroplasm at the same time. The serum levels of γ - glutamyltranspeptidase and its isoenzyme, abnormal prothrombin, alkaline phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were higher than those in normal.

matters needing attention

For patients with early liver cancer, there will always be some abnormal places in their body, such as unable to eat, and there will be labor pains in the liver area, and they will always feel general fatigue. If you have similar symptoms, you should go to the hospital for examination. If the AFP detection value is too high, it will prove that the patient has liver cancer.