What are the symptoms of liver cancer?

  Liver cancer has now become our second most common cancer, after lung cancer. This cancer often manifests itself as wasting, weakness and is accompanied by severe pain. Once the disease is developed, the chance of cure is low, so it is important to take care in life and stay away from liver disease and liver cancer. So, what are the manifestations of liver cancer?  1. Gastrointestinal symptoms: often manifest as loss of appetite, upper abdominal fullness after meals, or even nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.  2.Loss of weight and fatigue: this symptom often appears in the middle and late stages of liver cancer. It may be caused by biochemical metabolic changes of the body caused by tumor metabolites, reduced food intake and cachexia in severe cases.  Fever: Fever caused by liver cancer is generally around 37.5’C~38℃, occasionally it can be more than 39℃, with irregular fever pattern, mostly not accompanied by chills, afternoon fever is more common, sometimes flaccid fever is also seen, fever can be caused by tumor necrosis or its metabolites.  Pain: This is a common symptom of hepatocellular carcinoma patients, and the pain area is usually located in the liver area, and the pain in the liver area is usually located in the right rib area or under the saber process in patients with middle and late stage hepatocellular carcinoma. Some patients may have pain in the right shoulder, which is usually seen in the tumor in the right lobe near the diaphragm, causing involvement pain in the right shoulder due to its involvement in the diaphragm, which is easily misdiagnosed as frozen shoulder.  Liver cancer metastasis to other parts will show metastatic foci symptoms, metastasis to lung may show chest pain; metastasis to bone may show bone pain, etc. Therefore, when liver cancer patients show chest pain or bone pain, they should consider that it is caused by liver cancer metastasis.  If the patient is accompanied with dizziness, dizziness, panic and drop in blood pressure, it mostly indicates the rupture of cancer nodules and serious internal bleeding, and emergency rescue should be carried out in time.  5.Other symptoms: Those who have hepatitis, cirrhosis back or tumor infiltrative growth causing liver function loss may have bleeding tendency, such as nasal bleeding, gum and subcutaneous bruises, etc.; hypoproteinemia may also appear, resulting in edema, ascites, abdominal distension, etc.