5 early treatment methods of liver cancer
1.Surgical resection
For most patients with early stage liver cancer, resection of liver cancer is curable (survival period reaches five years) because the cancer is small and has not yet spread and metastasized at this time, and the most effective treatment is surgical resection. However, the specific effect needs to be evaluated according to the patient’s physical condition and living conditions. Generally, the prognosis of surgical resection for early-stage liver cancer treatment is related to the size at the time of resection, the better the physical quality and the smaller the cancer, the higher the five-year survival rate.
Although surgery is the best choice to treat early stage liver cancer, it should pay attention to the indications for surgery because it will bring more trauma to the body and may cause metastasis. After surgery, radiotherapy and cellular immunotherapy can be adopted for a certain period of time to prevent recurrence.
2.Radiation and chemotherapy treatment
Radiotherapy has a direct therapeutic effect on liver cancer, which can shrink the tumor and reduce the symptoms to a certain extent, however, radiotherapy is also more harmful to patients, which can suppress human immunity and cause damage to human functions.
3.Chinese medicine treatment
When liver cancer is combined with cirrhosis in early stage, liver cancer surgery is more likely to cause damage to liver function and even serious failure of liver function; in addition, when the location of liver cancer is located near the liver portal, the risk of surgery is also greater; finally, when old and weak cannot bear liver cancer surgery, conservative treatment with Chinese medicine is usually adopted.
4.Cellular immunotherapy
Cellular immunotherapy is the fourth tumor treatment mode after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is a method to suppress and treat tumor by stimulating the body’s own immune system. Cellular immunotherapy can make up for the shortage of traditional surgery and radiotherapy, while killing tumor cells, it can regulate and restore the immune function in the body, kill the formed tumor cells, inhibit the formation of new tumor cells and block the origin of tumor recurrence and metastasis, which is the best treatment for liver cancer.
5.Other treatment methods
For patients who cannot undergo radical surgery for certain reasons in early stage of liver cancer, cellular immunotherapy, interventional therapy, hepatic artery catheter embolization plus chemotherapy are better choices, in addition to radiofrequency ablation, cryotherapy, laser therapy and other treatment methods.
What are the susceptible groups of liver cancer?
1.People with family history of liver cancer
On the one hand, many hereditary diseases that damage the liver, such as pigmentary disorders and glycogen storage disease, will develop into cirrhosis, and the incidence of liver cancer is also high; on the other hand, it is believed that the familial gathering of liver cancer is mainly caused by the gathering of hepatitis B virus. There is no evidence that liver cancer is hereditary.
2.Patients with post-hepatitis cirrhosis
More than 50% of cirrhotic patients have cancer, and most of them are patients with recurrent disease, poor liver function and frequent complications such as ascites.
3.People with difficult living conditions
The occurrence of liver cancer has an occupational characteristic, and farmers have the highest incidence and mortality rate. Some people say that liver cancer and stomach cancer in China are diseases out of poverty, and people with poor economic conditions are prone to “liver cancer”, which has some truth.
4.Unhealthy drinking water
Water is an important substance to maintain the normal survival of human organism. Water itself certainly does not cause tumor, but epidemiological survey proves that the degree of drinking water pollution is positively related to the incidence of liver cancer. This undoubtedly suggests that there are carcinogenic substances in the water source, and it may be the joint action of multiple carcinogenic substances, such as humic acid and blue-green algae toxin.
5.Gene mutation
Mutagen and viruses in the environment stimulate the activation of the hepatocyte division reaction pathway, causing point mutations and gene translocations in cells, which are possible factors to accelerate the proliferation of cancer cells.