Most patients with liver cancer will not have obvious discomfort symptoms in the early stage, and about 80% of them have entered the middle and late stage after their illness is discovered, and people's fear of cancer has increased the difficulty of treatment. If the liver is found early, the cure rate is 70% through active treatment, so people should cultivate the awareness of early screening and prevention of liver cancer. When the body has the following symptoms of redness, swelling and pain, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for liver examination.
Palm and chest are red.
The liver plays a role in storing blood in the human body. When the liver is abnormal, the thenar of the palm will be congested and the color will become as red as cinnabar. It will turn white after being pressed by hand, and then slowly turn back to red. This condition is called "liver palm" and is a sign of hepatomegaly. The more serious the patient's condition is, the redder the palm will become.
Liver cancer can also cause the patient's chest to be red. The main reason is that there are a lot of spider moles on the chest, which is also a serious lesion of the liver. After the inactivation ability of estrogen in the body is reduced, a large amount of estrogen accumulates in the body, and the end of the branches of cutaneous arterioles expands to form a nevus, which looks like a spider, so it is called spider nevus. Some patients will also feel itchy skin, because bilirubin in the body is not discharged smoothly after liver function declines, and a large amount of cholestasis circulates to all parts of the body with blood flow, causing itching.
Pain in the liver area and right shoulder and back.
Most patients with liver cancer have symptoms of pain in the liver area, and the specific pain site is generally in the right upper abdomen. This is because the tumor grows rapidly, which leads to excessive stretching of the liver capsule, and tumor necrosis can also stimulate the liver capsule to varying degrees and cause pain. There are also some patients whose tumors grow in the deep part of liver parenchyma. Because there are no nociceptive nerves in the liver, they seldom feel pain, but after liver puncture examination, it may lead to the rupture of cancer nodules and cause severe pain.
Patients with advanced liver cancer will cause the surrounding tissues to be destroyed and infiltrated, and the nearby nerve roots will be compressed. For example, after cancer cells affect the diaphragm, people will feel pain in their right shoulder or back. Some people will think that this is shoulder arthritis and use anti-inflammatory drugs without authorization, but after taking the medicine, it will not only not improve the pain symptoms, but also aggravate the liver disease and make the pain worse.
Reminder: Once the above symptoms of redness, swelling and pain appear, you should go to the hospital for liver examination. Don't delay. If liver cancer is found, patients should first adjust their emotions, don't be overly nervous and anxious, try to maintain an optimistic attitude and actively cooperate with doctors' treatment. Specific treatment methods include radiotherapy and chemotherapy, interventional therapy, surgery, liver transplantation, etc., and can also be combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment according to their own physical conditions to reduce the adverse reactions caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In addition, we should eat less greasy, spicy, stimulating and cold food, avoid smoking and drinking, and keep a regular schedule to make our health better.