Symptoms of Liver Cancer

Symptoms of liver cancer that is often encountered is:

1. Significantly decreased appetite, abdominal bloating, bad digestion, sometimes nausea, vomiting.

2. The upper right abdomen pain, pain appears continuous or intermittent in the liver, sometimes changing the position of the body then the pain increased;

3. Agency weak, emaciated, unexplained fever and edema;

4. Emerging jaundice, ascites, skin itching and other symptoms;

5. Frequent nosebleeds, bleeding of the subcutaneous.

The emergence of liver cancer tends hidden, at an early stage are generally not encountered any symptoms, but when certain symptoms, liver cancer has entered the medium and advanced stage, when it is usually the patient has lost the opportunity to undergo the operation, therefore the general medical check-up very important to do.

Methods of diagnosis of liver cancer

1. Ultrasound Diagnosis: Using ultrasound to track the size of the B type, tumor shape, can find tumors with the size 2cm or smaller lesions, is one of the most commonly used ways and effective for diagnosing liver cancer.

2. Radionuclide liver scans: Can display size of liver tumors, abnormal shape, but for tumors smaller than 3 cm in diameter are not easily imaged.

3. CT examination: a high level of resolution, can detect early-stage liver cancer with a size of approximately 1 cm, effectively detecting early-stage liver cancer.

4. MRI: detection sensitivity is very high, can identify benign liver tumors and ferociously.

5. Celiac artery angiography artery or liver: Being able to image the tumors with 0.5-1mm size, can determine changes in the disease, size, moreover, is very effective against small liver cancer diagnosis placement.

Examination of the blood specimen

If the patient wants to ensure the presence or absence of liver cancer, the patient should be fasting before a blood check, the following is an examination which must be performed:

(1) Liver function tests: Dysfunction of liver cancer are found only in patients with advanced stage.

(2) Examination of alpha-fetoprotein: Specificity of tumor markers in the diagnosis of primary liver cancer, one of the best methods for the specific diagnosis of liver cancer cells.

(3) Serum ferritin: Serologic markers of primary liver cancer is the second.