Hepatocellular carcinoma has early, intermediate, and late stages, which vary greatly among individuals, and survival is therefore not generalizable.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a malignant tumor of the gastrointestinal tract that is prone to infiltrative growth and metastasis. The treatment and medications vary from stage to stage, and excessive rejection of Western medicine or Chinese medicine is not advisable.
Surgical treatment is preferred for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma, while for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, local ablation, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE), radiotherapy, and TACE combined with ablation can be chosen according to individual circumstances. For patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, targeted therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and Chinese herbal medicine can be chosen according to the situation.
Patients can choose Chinese and Western medicine, which complement each other throughout the treatment of liver cancer, but the medication and focus of each stage are different.
Therefore, it is recommended for liver cancer patients to go to a regular hospital in a timely manner and receive standardized treatment under the guidance of doctors to obtain a longer survival and better quality of life.