How to diagnose liver cancer

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Liver cancer is the same as other diseases, timely diagnosis and treatment is very important, my grandfather is because of jaundice and attention, diagnosed with liver cancer, early treatment directly affects the prognosis. Here's how to diagnose liver cancer.

How to diagnose liver cancer

One: alpha fetoprotein determination: this diagnostic method is the use of immune methods to determine the production of embryonic antigen, is currently one of the more effective methods to diagnose the disease specificity. If no other evidence of liver cancer is found, the positive rate of α - FP counter immunoelectrophoresis is more than 500 ng / ml and lasts for more than one month, excluding active liver cancer and pregnancy, and excluding germ gland embryonal tumor, it can be diagnosed as liver cancer.

Second: CT examination: this method of diagnosis of liver cancer has the characteristics of high resolution, can find about 1 cm in diameter in patients with early liver cancer, enhanced scanning can help identify hemangioma. The accuracy rate of diagnosis of liver cancer is as high as 90%, but the cost is expensive, so it is not widely used.

Third: Blood enzymology examination: the serum level of Γ - glutamyltranspeptidase in patients with this disease is higher than that in normal people, and the lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme and alkaline phosphatase are also higher than those in normal people, but this diagnosis lacks specificity, so it is only used as an auxiliary diagnosis.

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After the diagnosis of liver cancer, active treatment is very important. At the same time, we should try our best to keep the hope of patients, accept treatment, persist in living, give psychological care, control pain, and improve the quality of patients in the late life.