What are the latest treatments for liver cancer?

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The mortality of liver cancer is the third in the mortality of malignant tumor. The radical treatment of liver cancer is also a common concern of the medical community and patients. The early symptoms of HCC were not obvious, but the late symptoms were mainly liver pain, fatigue, emaciation, jaundice, ascites and so on. What are the latest treatments for liver cancer? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the latest treatments for liver cancer?

According to the patient's general condition, the degree of liver cirrhosis, the location and size of the tumor, different surgical methods are often determined, such as segmental hepatectomy, local hepatectomy, lobectomy, hemihepatectomy, and trilobectomy. However, the risk of surgical treatment is high, the cost is high, and there are obvious side effects.

Liver transplantation is a more effective method for the treatment of liver cancer, but there are serious limitations, the first is the lack of liver source, the second is the operation risk, side effects, need lifelong medication maintenance, easy to produce immune rejection, there is also ethical pressure, the use is very limited.

Interventional therapy for liver cancer is a kind of regional local chemotherapy by injecting anticancer drugs or embolic agents into the hepatic artery through femoral artery catheterization. Interventional therapy has a certain curative effect, but the curative effect is not satisfactory for patients with large tumor mass, and the normal liver cells are still damaged, and a few patients even have liver dysfunction.

matters needing attention

Liver cancer patients should pay attention to the balance of nutrients in the diet, not partial diet, usually eat more vegetables, fruits, coarse grains, eat less refined rice, refined noodles, animal fat and low cellulose food. The patients with low body weight and poor appetite can take a small amount of multiple meals and choose foods with high nutritional value according to the preference of patients; Severe malnutrition, should go to the hospital, with intravenous infusion to correct.