What are the symptoms of liver cancer metastasizing to the lungs? Liver cancer will metastasize to the lungs, but the symptoms will be different depending on the location of the lungs. Some patients will metastasize to the periphery of the lungs and find pleural metastasis. At th

Liver cancer What are the symptoms of liver cancer metastasis to the lungs

Liver cancer will metastasize to the lungs, but when it metastasizes to the lungs, the symptoms are different depending on the location of the lungs. Some patients will metastasize to the periphery of the lungs and find pleural metastasis. At this time, the patient will develop pleural effusion . Some patients will have dyspnea, which will worsen after activity. If lung metastasis occurs, and it metastasizes to the hilus or left bronchus, the patient will have cough, hemoptysis, and shortness of breath, which will worsen after activity. Therefore, liver cancer metastasizes to different parts of the lungs, and the symptoms are different. Some patients will also be infected, causing fever, dyspnea, secondary hypoxemia, dizziness, etc.

Targeted therapy and immunotherapy are commonly used in the late stage treatment of lung metastasis of liver cancer. Depending on the symptoms, different patients can also receive symptomatic treatment such as cough and asthma combined with anti-infection, especially now it can also be combined with traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has drugs that resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and are more effective in treating upper lung metastasis symptoms, such as Zhejiang Fritillaria , Tianlong, Shi Jianchuan, Shishangbai , which are relatively effective in treating upper lung metastasis lesions.

Can surgery be performed in the late stage of liver cancer?

Patients with advanced stage of liver cancer have distant metastasis, have invaded the portal vein or blood vessels, or have metastasis in the entire liver. Generally, surgery is not possible. Due to the current technological development and scientific level, and the improvement of the understanding of liver tumors, some portal vein tumor thrombus or metastasis of distant organs can be resected, both the primary liver tumor and the metastatic tumor can be resected.

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If there is severe decompensation of liver function or coagulation disorder or a large amount of ascites, surgery is contraindicated. Patients with heart, lung, kidney and other organ dysfunction who cannot tolerate surgery are also contraindications for surgery. Advanced liver cancer requires analysis of specific conditions. For patients with inoperable advanced tumors, other treatment methods can be adopted, including traditional Chinese medicine, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, mainly hepatic arterial infusion chemoembolization or radiofrequency. Some reports indicate that for patients with large liver cancer or metastases elsewhere, or patients with metastases to the lungs, for local tumors Radiofrequency ablation of and can be performed to achieve the purpose of treatment.

What should be paid attention to after liver cancer surgery

If liver cancer patients undergo radical resection, they should pay attention to nutrition after surgery, because after liver tumor resection, patients will generally develop nutritional disorders, including hypoalbuminemia and other problems. Specific attention should be paid to the following:

1. Pay attention to dietary nutrition: such as high-quality protein;

2. Pay attention to a happy mood: it is helpful for human immune function and can prevent the recurrence of liver tumors;

3. Generally, liver cancer is caused by hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C , so after surgery major positive Or patients with a relatively high number of viruses should pay attention to antiviral treatment, because antiviral treatment can also prevent tumor recurrence;

4. Regular review after 3 months after surgery: such as tumor marker , alpha-fetoprotein , imaging review, Abdominal ultrasound, abdominal CT, and MRI if necessary, to prevent early recurrence of the tumor; if early recurrence occurs, those who can undergo surgery can undergo surgery again.

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