What are the symptoms of advanced liver cancer? These symptoms appear when liver cancer reaches the advanced stage

People have been dealing with liver cancer for a while, so the level of awareness of liver cancer is relatively high. However, many people do not know about the early diagnosis and detection of liver cancer. Even if the patient shows corresponding symptoms, it is difficult for people to associate the patient with liver cancer. Therefore, people should understand the diagnosis and related symptoms of liver cancer.

Liver cancer is a disease that is easily discovered late, and many patients will not go to the hospital for diagnosis in the early stages. Although symptoms may occur after the disease progresses, common symptoms are liver pain and loss of appetite, which are similar to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Moreover, liver cancer mostly occurs on the basis of chronic disease and cirrhosis, so it is difficult to diagnose liver cancer based on these symptoms. Even if a lump is felt or there is jaundice or ascites, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish it from colon cancer and pancreatic cancer. Therefore, the diagnosis of liver cancer must rely on various special examinations.

If liver cancer reaches the late stage, the patient's symptoms are particularly obvious. The patient generally has jaundice, ascites, hematemesis, coma and other manifestations. A huge tumor can often be felt in the upper abdomen of liver cancer patients, but at this time it has reached the middle and late stages and has even metastasized to the lungs. The common clinical staging standard for gallbladder cancer in my country is: Early stage refers to patients who have no symptoms and signs of liver cancer (such as a mass). Because there are no manifestations, it is also called the "subclinical stage". Late stage refers to cases with jaundice, ascites or extrahepatic metastasis. The stage between the early and late stages is called the middle stage.

It can be seen that the diagnosis of liver cancer is sometimes difficult. The main difficulty lies in the patient's own lack of knowledge about liver cancer, so timely diagnosis is not carried out. When the disease reaches the advanced stage, it is often too late to treat it, and it is difficult to achieve a good treatment effect. Therefore, the diagnosis of liver cancer must be made as early as possible.