Symptoms before death from advanced liver cancer? Pay attention to these five points

Liver cancer is a very scary malignant tumor disease. The current medical level cannot completely cure this disease. Once the disease reaches the late stage, it will become extremely serious and the difficulty of treatment will increase. Therefore, the mortality rate of late-stage liver cancer is very high. Next, let us take a look at the symptoms before death of patients with late-stage liver cancer.

1. Hepatic encephalopathy: There may be different degrees of abnormal changes in personality and mental state. As the coma gradually deepens, it may eventually lead to death. Clinically, hepatic encephalopathy is mostly caused by inducing factors such as hyperproteinemia, infection, gastrointestinal bleeding, and large amounts of potassium excretion and diuresis. It has a low cure rate and a high mortality rate. Therefore, it is very necessary to effectively prevent its inducing factors.
2. Difficulty breathing: Patients with advanced liver cancer will experience severe difficulty breathing. The more difficulty breathing the patient has, the more nervous he will be, which will make breathing even more difficult. If not treated in time, it is likely to cause shock and death.
3. Pain in the liver area: In the late stage of liver cancer, the spread and rupture of the tumor causes compression of nearby nerves, local ischemia and necrosis, etc., which leads to infiltration of bones and periosteum and causes severe pain in liver cancer. Therefore, cancer pain is a symptom that patients cannot bear.
4. Massive gastrointestinal bleeding: Massive gastrointestinal bleeding in the late stage of liver cancer is one of the most dangerous complications. Severe damage to liver function, disorders of coagulation mechanism, esophageal varices at the gastric fundus, etc. may all lead to massive bleeding in the late stage of liver cancer. Therefore, attention should be paid to the patient's diet and lifestyle.
5. Severe digestive tract discomfort: Due to the spread of cancer, patients with advanced liver cancer often suffer from severe lack of appetite, nausea and vomiting before death. The patient’s inability to eat normally will lead to severe lack of nutrition and physical strength, which in turn accelerates the progression of liver cancer.
The above introduces the typical symptoms before death of patients with advanced liver cancer. Although cancer is terrible, it is preventable, so daily cancer prevention work is very necessary.