A smaller stomach with ascites from liver cancer doesn’t necessarily mean it’s getting better, it means that albumin is being fed into the veins or that the condition has improved. The liver can produce albumin, which maintains the colloid osmotic pressure inside and outside the blood vessels, so that the fluid inside the blood vessels does not easily get to the tissues. When liver cancer is present and the cancer cells severely damage the liver’s function, its ability to produce albumin is reduced and the fluid in the blood reaches the tissues, forming ascites. When ascites decreases, it may be because the doctor has intravenously supplemented the body with exogenous albumin or fresh frozen plasma, so that the body’s albumin level rises and the colloid osmotic pressure in the blood is maintained, thus reducing the production of ascites and the stomach becomes smaller. When anti-cancer drugs are used, the growth of cancer cells is controlled, the damage to the liver is reduced, liver function is restored, and its ability to synthesize albumin is improved, which can likewise reduce the generation of ascites. Suffering from liver cancer, we should actively treat it, the decrease of ascites does not necessarily mean that it is better, we need to follow the doctor’s advice for further examination to avoid delaying the condition.