-Why was my father’s liver cancer already advanced when it was discovered?
Every time when cancer is mentioned, Dr. Clove will always see similar messages.
Liver cancer, which seems to have invisibility, has been hiding around us until the last moment.
Why is this happening? Is there really no signal at all in the early stage of liver cancer?
Liver cancer ranks 3rd in the incidence rate of tumors and 2nd in the mortality rate of malignant tumors in China.
Why is the death rate so high?
The main reason is that it cannot be found early.
At present, only 20% of the patients who first found liver cancer can receive radical treatment such as surgery, and most of the patients are already in advanced stage when they are found.
In addition, the high mortality rate is also related to liver cancer, hepatitis and the liver itself.
Why is liver cancer advanced when discovered?
I’m sorry, but I must tell you that most liver cancer does not have special typical symptoms in the early stage, which is easy to ignore in life.
Another important and controllable reason is that the patients themselves do not pay enough attention.
Usually, there are few physical examinations. Even if doctors order regular examinations, they will not go to the examination because they feel troublesome, inconvenient for medical treatment (for example, patients from other places go to big cities for medical treatment) or financial conditions do not allow them to go to the examination. The body is not comfortable, the liver part is dull pain, always feel no problem, so as to miss the best treatment opportunity.
Liver cancer is indeed cunning and hides itself well in the early stage, but it is not without any clues.
Is liver cancer really not manifested at all in the early stage?
1. Always feel tired, bitter mouth, tired of greasiness, don’t want to eat, nails have vertical lines, is liver bad?
For people without various liver diseases, these are not precursors of liver cancer. Most of these physical discomfort are related to long working hours, high pressure, irregular work and rest and diet, and cannot be simply judged as what.
For people with basic liver diseases, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, autoimmunological liver diseases, alcoholic liver diseases, etc., whether you have these conditions or not, you should be more vigilant.
2. If you have liver disease, this is a clear early indication.
The etiology of liver cancer is still not completely clear. Studies have shown that liver cancer is related to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, alcoholic hepatitis and other hepatitis.
According to incomplete statistics:
There are nearly 100 million hepatitis B infected persons in our country, and about 2% ~ 10% will develop liver cirrhosis every year, of which 3% ~ 6% will eventually develop liver cancer.
This is often called hepatitis-liver cirrhosis-liver cancer trilogy.
As for our most common hepatitis B, many people do not know about this disease and their attitude towards it is also to avoid it.
This has also caused the psychological burden of people infected with hepatitis B and their fear of the disease itself, irregular physical examination, irregular doctor visits and even negligence of the disease.
There are also some people infected with hepatitis B who know their problems, but they do not attach importance to them.
I always think that there is no big deal. I don’t follow the doctor’s advice to check regularly. I don’t stay up late or drink. As a result, the disease progresses, and it may be too late when symptoms such as obvious liver pain, total belly distension, emaciation and frequent fever occur.
Facing liver cancer, what should we do?
1. The general population
Vaccination of hepatitis B vaccine to avoid infection with hepatitis B.
Routine physical examination is very necessary every year, especially for the older people, but now the occurrence of tumors is getting younger and younger. Young people, don’t always rely on their youth to do nothing. Routine physical examination is still required.
2. High-risk groups
- People infected with hepatitis B or hepatitis C; Liver cirrhosis population; People with family history of liver cancer; People who drink a lot of alcohol, are obese and have diabetes; People over 40 years old.
For this group of patients, a routine physical examination every year may not be enough.
However, the early screening of liver cancer in our country has not been standardized enough. On the one hand, it is easy to cause liver cancer not to be found in the early stage. On the other hand, it will also bring unnecessary panic due to the uncertainty of examination (such as false positive or false negative).
I sincerely suggest that you:
- Find the problem early: I feel something is wrong, go to the hospital! Dragging away from looking, Is to give liver cancer a chance. Regular examination: If it is a carrier of hepatitis B or a patient with hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis, According to the advice of a professional doctor, Do some check items, For example, alpha-fetoprotein, abdominal B-ultrasound, understand the development of the disease. Follow the doctor’s advice: let the reexamination be reviewed, let the medicine be taken, alcohol and tobacco and various unfavorable eating habits to the body be abandoned, after all, life is more important. Active treatment: even if the diagnosis of liver cancer is true, there are clinical transplants, resection, radio frequency, intervention and other treatment methods, find the problem, solve it in time.
Not all problems can be controlled, but we can always have our own choices.