For treatment of tumors that cannot be cured we usually call it palliative care. If you are sick, you need to receive treatment, but the treatment given will be different at different stages of the disease and patient physical factors, so can liver cancer receive conservative treatment? The answer is yes.
- Surgical resection is recommended for patients with early stage liver cancer with indications for surgery
- For patients with inoperable liver cancer in the middle and late stages, if their physique allows, doctors will recommend local treatment, including TACE, radiofrequency, radiotherapy, etc. However, for patients with liver cancer without local indications or who need combined systemic therapy, molecular targeted therapy or chemotherapy will be recommended if their physique allows, and they will also receive liver-protective therapy, nutritional support, antiviral therapy, immune enhancement, pain relief, and Chinese medicine are all used throughout. pain relief, and Chinese herbal medicine are all used throughout the process.
Conservative treatment is often referred to as no surgery, no radiation, no chemotherapy, no new targeted and immunotherapy, and simply receiving herbal, nutritional, and liver-protective treatments.
This is usually the case when some patients with advanced liver cancer choose conservative treatment with the aim of prolonging the patient’s life and improving the patient’s quality of life because of various reasons such as age, physical condition, disease, and economy, considering that the treatment is not very meaningful and aggravates the pain, and therefore abandoning active treatment such as surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy.