Generally speaking, it is not recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine for patients with advanced liver cancer with liver insufficiency, so as to avoid further deterioration of liver function.
Generally speaking, advanced liver cancer has distant metastasis, and when liver insufficiency has already appeared, liver cancer is already difficult to be cured. Therefore, taking traditional Chinese medicine also has little effect on the treatment of liver cancer.
In addition, when liver insufficiency occurs, the decomposition and metabolism ability of the body decreases significantly, and most of the traditional Chinese medicines need to be decomposed and metabolized by the liver to be excreted from the body, therefore, it will further aggravate the damage of the liver cells, which will do more harm than good to the body. Therefore, it is not recommended to take traditional Chinese medicine for those who have liver insufficiency in advanced stage of liver cancer.
Symptomatic supportive treatment is mostly used to relieve patients’ pain and prolong their lives, and it is not recommended to take Chinese medicine.