Symptoms and signs of liver cancer

Symptoms of liver cancer at an early hour the volume has not been any special symptoms such as anorexia if burnout is often hepatitis, cirrhosis symptoms. Large tumor, will have weight loss, right upper quadrant pain, hepatomegaly and other phenomena, a small number of patients with internal bleeding due to liver rupture shock treatment. Patients are often mistaken for blood on behalf of the normal liver all normal, which in high-risk group of patients are not applicable. The so-called high-risk groups include: (1) has a family history of liver disease, especially mothers with chronic hepatitis carriers; (2) liver cirrhosis patients, particularly over 40-year-old male. Only regular screening in order to early detection of liver cancer, and get good treatment. Screening methods generally include a species of blood-fetoprotein (alpha-fetoprotein, AFP) measurement and abdominal ultrasound scan. However, only about 20-30% of small hepatocellular carcinoma will increase its AFP and therefore useful for early diagnosis is not very big, but a large number of high-risk patients are still screening the blood of its practicality. Abdominal sonography for the diagnostic accuracy of small liver cancer is very high, up to 95%, but the scans are required a considerable degree of training to identify small hepatocellular carcinoma, and double-check is the amount of time spent in general only for high-risk group of patients. Use a combination of two methods, you can improve the diagnosis rate. For those who have abnormal conduct further abdominal CT scan or angiography, if there is still doubt as further consideration should be given the liver tumor puncture histopathological examination to determine the diagnosis. For patients with cirrhosis should be every three to six months periodic inspection time, asymptomatic chronic hepatitis carriers, currently every 6-10 months once appropriate periodic inspection.