What are the dietary methods to relieve the pain of liver cancer patients? Can radiofrequency ablation replace surgical resection?

What are the dietary methods to relieve the pain of liver cancer patients?

Liver cancer patients should pay attention to dietary adjustments. Applying symptomatic dietary therapy before or after surgery can help patients relieve pain, improve physical function, and facilitate treatment and postoperative recovery.

Eclipta prostrata ginger drink

Ingredients: 500 grams of Eclipta prostrata, 30 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of honey.

Preparation: decoct the first two ingredients in water to extract the juice, add honey and boil into a paste. Take 1 spoon each time, three times a day.

Efficacy: It can promote the production of body fluids and relieve dryness, warm the spleen and stomach, help improve the patient's appetite, and moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements.

Baizhu Shuangrou Yin

Ingredients: 12g Atractylodes macrocephala, 250g rabbit meat, 20 large snails (meat included).

Preparation: Remove the mud from the snails, wash them, scald them in boiling water and take out the meat. Then put the snail meat and rabbit meat in a pot, add Atractylodes macrocephala and appropriate amount of water, simmer for two hours on low heat, and season with salt.

Efficacy: Clears the liver and detoxifies, promotes diuresis and reduces jaundice, treats advanced liver cancer with ascites and jaundice.

Carp, ginger, sugar and red bean soup

Ingredients: 1 carp, appropriate amount of ginger and sugar.

Preparation: Cut the carp open, remove the intestines and debris, keep the scales and wash it. Put it into a pan with oil and fry it over low heat until both sides are slightly yellow. Put it together with red beans, add water and cook until done. Then add ginger sugar and simmer briefly.

Efficacy: Diuretic, detumescent and detoxifying, used to treat liver cancer complicated with jaundice, ascites and swelling.

Can radiofrequency ablation replace surgical resection?

Domestic and foreign studies have shown that for small liver cancers with a diameter of less than 3 cm, the effect of radiofrequency ablation is similar to that of surgical resection. So, can radiofrequency ablation replace surgical resection?

Radiofrequency ablation and surgical resection each have advantages and disadvantages in the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinoma. Radiofrequency ablation and surgical resection should be selected rationally according to the condition of the disease and their advantages should be brought into play. This is the correct choice.

For small peripheral liver cancers, that is, liver cancers at the edge of the liver, surgical resection is simple and thorough, so surgical resection should be used. However, for small liver cancers in this area, radiofrequency ablation is prone to bleeding complications. For small liver cancers deep in the liver parenchyma, surgical resection requires the removal of a large amount of normal liver to remove the liver cancer. If surgical resection is used, it is not cost-effective. At this time, radiofrequency ablation is safe, less damaging, and has good effects, so radiofrequency ablation should be used for treatment.

In addition, if the liver cirrhosis is severe and the risk of surgical resection is high, radiofrequency ablation is suitable for treatment.