How to treat and manage advanced liver cancer?

Current treatment for patients with advanced liver cancer is mainly

  • Targeted therapies: sorafenib, lenvatinib, regorafenib, and other targeted therapies.
  • Systemic chemotherapy: oxaliplatin is the mainstay.
  • Chinese herbal medicine: Sophora granules, Huachansu and other modern Chinese medicine preparations, traditional Chinese medicine evidence-based treatment.
  • Other therapies: best supportive care and palliative care, etc.
  • Immunotherapy: PD-1 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy is still controversial.

The recommendations for daily life management in patients with advanced liver cancer are as follows

  • Modify diet with small, frequent meals and increase appetite to ensure adequate nutrition, provide the body with the energy needed to repair, and reduce symptoms brought on by the disease and treatment, such as bloating, ascites, weakness, and pain.
  • Emotional adjustment to maintain optimism, as well as attention to massage turning cleaning and other basic care.
  • The most important thing is to cooperate with the doctor to actively treat the disease according to the condition, and at the same time, you can combine with traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the disease, mainly to support and fight cancer, strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit the qi and nourish the yin, and protect the liver and bile.