Can I have children after liver cancer surgery?

Some patients with liver cancer who come to see a doctor worry about whether they can have children and breastfeed. Theoretically, as long as the reproductive system of liver cancer patients is normal, it is still possible to have children. However, from a medical point of view and from the perspective of eugenics, a married liver cancer patient should be discouraged from getting pregnant and having children. The reasons are as follows: Although liver cancer is not an infectious disease, it has a significant genetic tendency and familial aggregation.

During pregnancy, the body consumes a lot of energy, and endocrine changes and changes in the immune system can easily lead to tumor development. Some clinically cured liver cancer patients experience recurrence or metastasis after pregnancy.

If the patient becomes pregnant during treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy may also lead to miscarriage and fetal malformation. At the same time, during treatment, the patient's mental and physical condition are often poor, with loss of appetite, and some may experience digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which leads to malnutrition in the patient and inevitably affects the growth and development of the fetus.

Patients who are diagnosed with liver cancer during pregnancy should consider terminating the pregnancy immediately and focus on treatment. If they still want to have children for various reasons, they must wait for 5 years without recurrence or metastasis, with good general condition and normal laboratory test indicators before considering the issue of having children.

Likewise, liver cancer patients should not breastfeed themselves. Breastfeeding will increase the patient's physical exertion, further deteriorate the patient's physical condition, affect the body's immune function, and is extremely detrimental to the body's control of cancer foci and potential recurrence and metastasis. Especially for liver cancer patients who have just been treated, breastfeeding should be avoided to prevent recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer.