How to choose the treatment method for liver cancer? What should you know about the treatment principles for early, middle and late stage liver cancer

How to choose the treatment method for liver cancer

Liver cancer is a difficult disease to treat. With the development of medical technology, there are many ways to treat liver cancer, such as liver resection and liver transplantation. Therefore, patients should not lose confidence in treatment. What is the best way to treat liver cancer? Surgical treatment methods mainly include liver resection and liver transplantation. There is no unified standard for how to choose. It is generally believed that:

1. For localized liver cancer, if the patient does not have cirrhosis, liver resection should be the first choice.

2. For localized liver cancer, if it is accompanied by cirrhosis, liver function decompensation, and meets the conditions for transplantation, liver transplantation should be the first choice.

3. For patients with resectable localized liver cancer and good liver function compensation, whether liver transplantation can be performed is currently controversial. If liver resection is performed, the recurrence rate is high and it is not advisable. The long-term survival rate and tumor-free survival rate of patients who are eligible for liver transplantation are significantly better than those who undergo liver resection, so liver transplantation is recommended.

Liver transplantation has strict standards and not everyone can do it. Usually, liver transplantation is one of the auxiliary treatment methods for liver cancer. Liver transplantation should be done only for those who are not suitable for liver resection. my country's standards have expanded the scope of indications for liver transplantation for liver cancer, which can benefit more liver cancer patients from surgery. It is generally believed that appropriate chemotherapy and antiviral treatment after liver cancer surgery may reduce the recurrence of liver cancer, improve the quality of life of patients, and prolong the survival time of patients.

Treatment principles for early, middle and late stages of liver cancer

The treatment principles for liver cancer refer to prolonging the patient's survival time and improving the patient's quality of life through effective treatment. The formulation of treatment principles is mainly based on the patient's own conditions, such as physical condition, mental state, etc., and is also related to the type and stage of liver cancer. Based on this, the three principles of liver cancer treatment are summarized as follows:

1. For patients with early-stage liver cancer, if the liver cancer is relatively localized and has not spread or metastasized, surgical resection should be actively performed to obtain the best treatment effect.

2. For patients with early liver cancer who cannot undergo surgical resection, such as those who are weak and have poor tolerance, they can receive radiofrequency ablation, intratumoral injection of anhydrous ethanol, hepatic artery embolization chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other measures to prolong the patient's survival.

3. For patients with advanced liver cancer, if the above treatment measures cannot prolong the patient's survival, symptomatic treatment should be given. For example, effective analgesic treatment should be given for pain caused by liver cancer. For patients with spinal metastasis, the development of local tumors can compress the bone marrow and cause paraplegia. At this time, active radiotherapy should be given to control the development of local tumors.

The formulation of liver cancer treatment principles provides guidance for the determination of treatment plans for each liver cancer patient. The general treatment direction can be determined at the beginning of the patient's diagnosis to reduce physical damage or economic losses to patients due to incorrect or unrealistic treatments.