How to provide better care after diagnosis of liver cancer? How to follow up after liver cancer resection

What are the nursing care for liver cancer?

Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from liver cancer, which brings many inconveniences to their daily lives. If patients lack the nursing methods for liver cancer during treatment, their condition may become more and more serious. Therefore, everyone should understand the nursing methods for liver cancer in advance so that they can take good care of the patients. The following will introduce the specific measures for the nursing of liver cancer.

Liver cancer care includes:

1. For patients with pain, medication should be given on time according to the pain level. This is one of the nursing methods for liver cancer.

2. Those with signs of hepatic coma should limit protein intake; those with edema and ascites should strictly control sodium salt and fluid intake and eat a salt-free or low-salt diet.

3. In the care of liver cancer, it is also necessary to avoid using gravity to press on the liver to prevent liver rupture and cause massive bleeding in the liver.

4. Carefully observe the color, nature and amount of the patient's urine and feces. If the stool is black, be alert to gastrointestinal bleeding; if the urine volume is less than usual, ascites may be formed, and the doctor should be notified in time for examination and treatment. This is also a nursing measure for liver cancer.

The above is the nursing care for liver cancer. I hope everyone can understand it. As long as the nursing methods for liver cancer are combined as soon as possible, patients can cooperate with the treatment in time, and then the condition can be effectively alleviated. So if you want patients to regain their confidence, please learn more about the nursing methods for liver cancer. Finally, I wish all patients can fight the disease to the end.

How to follow up after liver cancer resection

The recurrence rate after liver cancer resection is relatively high. However, if the recurrence can be detected in the early stage, timely treatment can be given to achieve good treatment results. Therefore, correct and regular follow-up after surgery is very important.

Follow-up after liver cancer resection usually uses the method of testing alpha-fetoprotein and ultrasound examination. For patients with positive alpha-fetoprotein before surgery, postoperative alpha-fetoprotein testing can sensitively detect recurrence. Some patients believe that if the alpha-fetoprotein is negative before surgery, there is no need to test alpha-fetoprotein after surgery. In fact, this is wrong. We have found in clinical practice that many patients have negative alpha-fetoprotein before surgery, but after recurrence, alpha-fetoprotein is positive. This is because the recurrence of liver cancer can originate from a single center, which is what we often call intrahepatic metastatic lesions; the recurrence of liver cancer can also originate from multiple centers, that is, liver cancer lesions reoccur on the basis of liver cirrhosis, which causes some patients to have negative alpha-fetoprotein before surgery, but the recurrent lesions are positive for alpha-fetoprotein. Similarly, some patients have positive alpha-fetoprotein before surgery, but the recurrent lesions may also be negative for alpha-fetoprotein. Therefore, for patients with negative alpha-fetoprotein before surgery, even if the alpha-fetoprotein is negative, it cannot be considered that there is no recurrence in the postoperative follow-up. Therefore, ultrasound examination is required at the same time as alpha-fetoprotein testing. Of course, if the alpha-fetoprotein level is elevated or there are suspicious lesions on ultrasound examination, further ultrasound angiography, CT or MRI examination will be needed.

Since liver cancer is prone to lung metastasis, lung X-rays should be done regularly, and chest CT scans should be performed when necessary.

Generally speaking, alpha-fetoprotein and ultrasound tests should be done every 2 to 3 months, and a chest X-ray examination should be done every six months.