What is the relationship between shoulder pain and liver cancer? Why is shoulder pain a symptom of liver cancer?

Shoulder pain is very common in life. Many people think that they are over-tired or suffer from frozen shoulder when they have shoulder pain, but they don’t know that frequent shoulder pain may be an early symptom of liver cancer. Many people may think that shoulder pain and liver cancer are two unrelated parts. Why is shoulder pain a symptom of liver cancer? What is the relationship between the two?

Is shoulder pain a symptom of liver cancer?

Generally speaking, if you take a proper rest after shoulder pain occurs or check your shoulder and find no problem, and if this pain occurs frequently, you should be alert to the possibility of liver cancer. Because liver cancer will cause pain, this pain will pull the nerves and cause shoulder pain. However, it should be noted that liver cancer can cause shoulder pain, but shoulder pain is not necessarily a symptom of liver cancer, so when shoulder pain occurs, you must learn to distinguish and make the correct judgment.

What is the connection between shoulder pain and liver cancer?

Since liver cancer is a metastatic disease, some patients will experience compression of visceral nerves due to the spread of cancer cells after the onset of liver cancer, which will lead to reflex pain in the right shoulder and back. Shoulder pain caused by the liver is called referred pain, which is easily misdiagnosed as frozen shoulder and various cervical spondylosis when it occurs, which will lead to the best treatment opportunity being missed. Therefore, you should be vigilant when shoulder pain occurs, and do not think that the two are unrelated and can be ignored. The occurrence of liver cancer will cause shoulder pain.

However, what everyone needs to know is that not all cases of liver cancer will cause shoulder pain, and not all cases of shoulder pain are liver cancer. Zheng Dayong, attending physician of the Department of Oncology at Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, once said in an interview that shoulder pain and liver cancer are related to a certain extent, because when liver cancer occurs, there will be some inflammation and irritation to the liver capsule, so there will be shoulder pain, but not all patients will experience shoulder pain. Right shoulder pain can only be a symptom of liver cancer, but not all liver cancer patients will experience it, and it does not mean that left and right shoulder pain must be liver cancer.

Warm reminder: shoulder pain may occur when liver cancer occurs, but in addition to shoulder pain, there may be some other symptoms, so everyone should pay attention. When shoulder pain occurs, you can observe whether there are other symptoms in the body, such as pain in the liver area, digestive tract symptoms, etc. If accompanied by these conditions, you should conduct a liver examination in time. At the same time, if shoulder pain occurs, if shoulder disease is ruled out, you should also pay attention, as liver cancer may have occurred.