What are the symptoms of diffuse liver cancer? What can we do to prevent diffuse liver cancer from spreading?

Many liver cancer patients are found in the middle or late stage, which makes treatment more difficult. In fact, the key to the treatment of cancer is early detection. So how to treat diffuse liver cancer in the late stage? How to treat it effectively is the answer many patients want to know. In addition, liver cancer will show signs of metastasis in the late stage, so early treatment is crucial.

Liver cancer metastasis refers to the process in which cancerous cells invade other normal tissues and cause them to become cancerous. For example, the liver has relatively rich blood sinusoids, so the possibility of intrahepatic metastasis is very high. Many early liver cancer patients will also have varying degrees of liver metastasis. When liver cancer cells invade the branches of the portal vein to form cancer thrombi, the cancer thrombus blockage causes portal hypertension and refractory ascites.

The obvious symptoms of diffuse liver cancer in the late stage are weight loss and loss of appetite. Typical patients have enlarged, hardened, tender livers, fever, accumulation of peritoneal transudate, and ascites. In the early stage, there is no jaundice or the jaundice is mild, unless the cancer blocks the bile duct. The jaundice gradually worsens a few weeks before the patient's death. The most common symptom of liver cancer in the late stage is pain in the liver area, followed by upper abdominal mass, poor appetite, fatigue, weight loss, unexplained fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, right shoulder pain, etc. Some patients also show some complications of cirrhosis, such as black stools, vomiting blood, jaundice, etc.

Diffuse liver cancer is highly malignant. Although surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a direct effect on the treatment of diffuse liver cancer, their long-term treatment results are not satisfactory. The proportion of recurrence and metastasis after treatment is also high. In addition, these treatment methods for diffuse liver cancer will cause a certain degree of damage to the body functions of diffuse liver cancer patients. Therefore, in these treatments, traditional Chinese medicine is indispensable. It can alleviate the side effects of other treatments and effectively improve the quality of life of patients.

In addition, there are certain principles for the diet of patients with diffuse liver cancer, and I hope that the patients' families can keep them in mind. Liver cancer patients should choose foods that are easy to digest, absorb and excrete, and mainly eat light foods, which will help them recover from the disease. Then, try to avoid spicy, high-fat, overly cold or overly hot foods. In addition, try to eat less foods containing preservatives, processed condiments, and artificial colors, and do not eat pickled, smoked, fermented, or moldy foods. For example, if there is abdominal distension and ascites, the diet should be light and low in salt.