What should patients with advanced liver cancer do when they are in pain? What are the treatments for advanced liver cancer?

Liver cancer is a highly malignant tumor, which is related to the patient's smoking and drinking, eating moldy food, suffering from viral hepatitis and genetic factors. Liver cancer often occurs in patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C, as well as viral hepatitis and cirrhosis. There are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of liver cancer, while the symptoms of middle and late stage liver cancer are obvious. Patients will experience abdominal distension, fatigue, weight loss, progressive hepatosplenomegaly and other symptoms. In addition, patients will also experience unbearable pain, which reduces the patient's quality of life. Next, Hu Meng, the attending physician of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, will introduce to us in detail how to treat pain in patients with advanced liver cancer.

What should patients with advanced liver cancer do when they are in pain?

Patients with advanced liver cancer can take appropriate analgesics to improve symptoms and improve their quality of life. 1. If mild to moderate pain occurs, it is recommended to use relatively short-acting analgesics, and to relieve anxiety, improve sleep and other methods to reduce pain. 2. If the pain is moderate to severe, it is recommended to actively use some strong analgesics to control pain and improve the quality of life.

What treatments are used for advanced liver cancer?

The main treatment methods for advanced liver cancer are as follows: 1. Arterial chemoembolization; 2. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy; 3. Molecular targeted drug therapy; 4. Immune checkpoint inhibitory drug therapy; 5. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment. For patients diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, effective anti-tumor treatment should be carried out in combination with the patient's condition.

Can liver transplantation be performed in advanced liver cancer?

Advanced liver cancer is a major indication for liver transplantation, but it requires strict evaluation before transplantation. 1. If liver cancer metastasizes to distant sites outside the liver, liver transplantation is not recommended. 2. If the liver cancer tumor is confined to the liver and there is no distant or large blood vessel invasion, it is still recommended that the patient actively undergo liver transplantation to achieve the purpose of prolonging life and improving quality of life.

Conventional surgical treatment cannot remove cancer cells from patients with advanced liver cancer, and may even cause irreversible damage to the liver. In this case, comprehensive treatment can be used to relieve the patient's pain by relying on traditional Chinese medicine and targeted drugs. Interventional treatment can also be used to embolize the tumor's blood vessels, causing the tumor to lose nutrition and shrink, thus prolonging the patient's survival time.