How does liver cancer terminal hit albumin

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A grandfather, who has known for a long time and is a very good man, went to the hospital not long ago and found out that he had advanced liver cancer. His family was very worried and took care of him in the hospital bed every day. He also actively cooperated with the doctor's treatment. Now let me popularize the science of how to fight advanced liver cancer.

How does liver cancer terminal hit albumin

First, ascites in advanced stage of liver cancer is generally due to the damage of liver function, the decrease of albumin and the decrease of plasma colloid osmotic pressure, which leads to the imbalance of intracellular and extracellular water metabolism and the loss of intracellular water to extracellular fluid. The routine method of Western medicine is to use diuretics, supplement albumin and extract ascites. Simply using diuretics can't solve ascites of liver cancer. Extracting ascites is a headache and foot pain. The more ascites is pumped, the faster ascites will rise. Although albumin infusion has the effect of increasing plasma colloid osmotic pressure, it seems to be a radical cure, but it is also a palliative method because it doesn't improve the constitution of advanced liver cancer.

Second, alpha fetoprotein is a sensitive tumor marker of primary liver cancer. Generally, alpha fetoprotein is more than 400 and lasts for four weeks. Or more than 248, combined with imaging examination, can be clearly diagnosed as primary liver cancer. There are also some patients whose alpha fetoprotein is not more than 400 or 200. Your current situation is not easy to evaluate. It is suggested to improve the liver MRI and color Doppler ultrasound examination.

Third: some patients with ascites of advanced liver cancer have symptoms of maladjustment immediately after 2-3 times of albumin supplementation. Therefore, if the albumin is not low, do not arbitrarily supplement albumin (albumin > 35g / L is not recommended). Clinically, it is also found that although the patient's albumin is very low, the ascites can regress to a certain extent after albumin supplement, but there is no effect at this time. In fact, this is the manifestation that the patient has entered a "critical" state, and the body can no longer accept any drugs.

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However, in modern society, liver cancer has become one of the most common cancers in China. All cancers need to be treated as soon as possible, so that the disease can be alleviated and suppressed, and the patient's condition can be completely cured.