6 major symptoms of liver cancer

Liver cancer is a malignant digestive system tumor, and early detection and treatment are crucial. Liver cancer patients often feel tired, especially in the morning. Pain, weight loss, gastrointestinal symptoms, upper abdominal mass, and low-grade fever are also common manifestations of liver cancer. Patients with hepatitis and cirrhosis should be alert to these symptoms and seek medical treatment promptly.

Today, in this article, we talk about the daunting liver cancer. Liver cancer is a malignant digestive system tumor that often threatens our lives. Early detection of liver cancer and timely treatment are very important for prolonging life and improving treatment effects.

Here, I would like to remind you that at the beginning of liver cancer, most people will have a feeling.

This is fatigue. And this kind of fatigue is especially obvious when you first get up in the morning.

Why is this so? We might as well understand it from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine theory.

In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is the root of the disease. What is “strike”? It refers to fatigue resistance. In other words, the reason why a person can tolerate fatigue and keep working depends on his liver.

Because the liver stores blood and controls tendons. If a person has a liver problem, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there will definitely be a problem that the liver blood cannot nourish the muscles. At this time, our body will feel tired.

In addition, in the context of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is responsible for dispersion and diarrhea. In other words, the smooth operation of the body’s qi is inseparable from the liver’s ability to release and circulate freely. Therefore, when there is a problem with our liver, Qi stagnation will occur. However, stagnation and stagnation of qi and the inability to nourish the whole body with blood will also cause us to be exhausted.

This kind of fatigue caused by liver problems is most obvious in the morning.

Under normal circumstances, the fatigue we feel after a day’s work will be “cleared” by sleeping at night. The reason why it can be “cleared” is that at night, our blood returns to the liver, and the liver blood nourishes the liver body and restores the liver’s qi and function.

In this way, when we get up the next day, the liver can allow us to tolerate fatigue again. However, if there is a problem with the liver and it is difficult to recover, when we get up the next morning, the fatigue of the previous day will be “superimposed” to today, and at the same time, the yang energy in the body will not fully rise due to liver problems, and we will feel Extremely tired.

Therefore, clinical observation shows that almost everyone with liver disease, including liver cancer, cirrhosis, severe fatty liver, hepatitis, etc., will experience fatigue.

The formation of liver cancer is a slow process. Some people’s fatigue will already appear during the development of liver cancer, such as patients with severe liver cirrhosis.

When liver cancer actually forms, the patient’s fatigue will be particularly prominent and difficult to eliminate. This is the so-called “cancer fatigue” and requires great attention.

Of course, liver cancer patients may also have other symptoms besides fatigue. These symptoms are often the first symptoms for patients to seek treatment.

First, pain.

Patients with liver cancer often feel pain in the liver area, which is mostly dull pain or swelling. And this pain can be continuous or intermittent. The pain is often more noticeable in certain positions.

The pain site can be under the xiphoid process, under the right rib, you can feel pain in the right shoulder and back, or it can also manifest as pain in the right waist.

Second, lose weight.

In the intermediate and advanced stages of liver cancer, weight loss is inevitable for patients. This is caused by the rapid growth of tumors that absorb nutrients from the body.

Third, gastrointestinal symptoms.

About 60% of liver cancer patients initially seek medical attention due to digestive tract symptoms, including abdominal distension, nausea, anorexia, diarrhea, etc.

Fourth, there is a mass in the upper abdomen.

Some patients have relatively strong tolerance and can tolerate the dull pain in the liver area and gastrointestinal symptoms that have already appeared, and even feel that it is not enough to affect their daily life. In the end, I sought medical treatment because of an obvious mass in my upper abdomen. By this time, it is often already late.

Fifth, fever.

Fever is very common in patients with liver cancer. This kind of fever usually lasts below 38 degrees Celsius and is not accompanied by chills. Patients often fail to respond to antibiotic treatment.

In short, liver cancer, as a common malignant tumor, deserves our high vigilance.

Especially patients with hepatitis and cirrhosis should pay attention to and identify the above symptoms.