In China, the incidence rate of liver cancer ranks the second highest among all cancers. According to statistics, about 260,000 patients die from liver cancer worldwide and 100,000 patients die from liver cancer in China every year. Because of its high malignancy, rapid progress and difficulty in treatment, liver cancer has become the “king of cancers” which seriously threatens human health and life.
How to prevent liver cancer in daily life: 1.
1.Prevent hepatitis: timely and standardized hepatitis vaccination is an effective way to prevent hepatitis.
2. Keep away from carcinogenic substances: do not eat moldy and burnt food, and eat less pickled products.
3, to strictly abstain from alcohol: alcohol can cause inflammation and necrosis of liver cells, leading to liver cirrhosis.
4.Regular medical checkups: Patients with chronic hepatitis B or C have a 10-30 times higher chance of developing liver cancer than normal people, therefore, patients with liver disease should have regular medical checkups, and once the disease is found to have changed, they should receive timely and effective treatment to prevent their condition from developing into liver cancer.
5. To enhance the immunity of the body: the occurrence of liver cancer is related to the low immunity of the body.
Why choose interventional treatment for liver cancer?
Surgery is not a panacea. Early clinical symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious, and most of them are already in the middle or late stage when the disease develops, and most of them have lost the opportunity of surgery. For patients who are not suitable for surgical resection, hepatic artery intervention is recommended first. Hepatic artery intervention not only can cut off the blood supply and nutrition of tumor, but also chemotherapeutic drugs can kill tumor cells directly through hepatic artery. In addition, many large hepatocellular carcinomas that are not suitable for surgical resection, multiple hepatocellular carcinomas and even hepatocellular carcinomas with extensive cancer thrombosis can be treated by hepatic artery intervention.
How to treat liver cancer with intervention?
Interventional treatment is performed under local anesthesia and the patient is awake and pain-free. A small incision about the size of a grain of rice (1-2mm) is made on the skin at the root of the thigh, and the catheter is inserted into the tumor artery under TV surveillance to block the blood supplying artery with embolic agent to starve the tumor (ischemic necrosis) and achieve the treatment purpose. Its efficacy is obviously stronger than systemic chemotherapy, and it can achieve clinical cure for small liver cancer; for middle and advanced liver cancer, it can shrink the liver cancer, reduce the pain and prolong the survival period. The surgery is less invasive and the patient can get out of bed the day after surgery. Since liver cancer is nourished by hepatic artery, the method of chemotherapy for liver cancer through intravenous chemotherapy or portal vein stay pump has been basically eliminated.
Why is surgical resection of hepatocellular carcinoma easy to recur?
Most of the lesions have already invaded the blood vessels or metastasized distantly, thus losing the opportunity of surgical resection, and it is not easy to remove the lesions cleanly, so the lesions will grow faster, which increases the difficulty of treatment. Liver cancer is often combined with cirrhosis at the same time, which increases the risk of open surgery. In addition to liver transplantation, interventional treatment is a more practical and effective way to cure the disease in principle.
How to distinguish small hepatocellular carcinoma from cirrhotic nodules?
Since most of small liver cancers are developed from cirrhotic nodules, it is very important to distinguish small liver cancers from cirrhotic nodules for the treatment of patients. If there is iodine oil deposit in the nodule, the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma is confirmed. Better still, direct CT hepatic arteriography is the best way.
Is interventional therapy scary?
Interventional treatment usually requires only local anesthesia, a small incision of about 1mm on the skin, puncture into the blood vessels and bile ducts, and the operation is performed under TV surveillance. Patients are awake and painless, and can get out of bed the day after the procedure and can take care of themselves.
What do I need to do before the interventional treatment?
In addition to routine blood tests and ultrasound examinations, patients need to have a CT or MRI of the liver to basically detect lesions, make a clear diagnosis and carry out treatment.
Interventional treatment for various liver diseases.
Hepatic artery chemoembolization for primary and metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma; integrated interventional treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with Chinese and Western medicine; puncture and drainage and stentoplasty for infarctive jaundice, interventional treatment of Buga syndrome, integrated interventional treatment of cirrhosis, portal hypertension and hypersplenism, embolization of hepatic hemangioma.
Interventional treatment of vascular diseases.
Interventional treatment of carotid artery, cerebral artery stenosis and cerebral aneurysm, intubation thrombolysis and stenting of vascular stenosis or occlusion of the extremities, stenting of renal artery stenosis, stenting of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm and clogged aneurysm, embolization and sclerosis of congenital vascular disease of limbs and face.
Interventional treatment of non-vascular diseases
Dilation and stenting of esophageal, tracheal stenosis, duodenal and colonic stenosis; drainage and stenting of infarctive jaundice; minimally invasive ablation of intervertebral disc; vertebroplasty, etc.