How long can liver cancer live?

There is no absolute standard for this problem. Even in the advanced stage, the possibility of radical cure is very small, the possibility of "appropriately prolonging the survival time" is very high, and it is not impossible to survive with tumors for a long time. At present, the treatment concept strongly advocates the treatment with the goal of "survival with tumor". Many family members of patients with liver cancer find that liver cancer is often found at an advanced stage. Why is it difficult to find liver cancer in the early stage? Experts explained that the early symptoms of liver cancer are not obvious, and even patients have no feelings for a long time after illness. When the disease develops to a certain extent, they will gradually develop some symptoms such as liver pain, loss of appetite, fatigue and emaciation, and later jaundice, ascites, hematemesis and coma will occur. A huge lump can often be felt in the upper abdomen of patients with liver cancer, but it has reached the middle and late stage and even metastasized to the lungs. The total course of liver cancer is about two and a half years, two of which are asymptomatic in the early stage. Once symptoms appear, the survival time is only half a year.

There are no symptoms in the early stage of liver cancer, and patients will not take the initiative to go to the hospital, which brings difficulties to early diagnosis. Liver cancer mostly occurs on the basis of chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, and it is difficult to diagnose liver cancer through these symptoms. Even if you touch a lump or have jaundice and ascites, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish it from colon cancer and pancreatic cancer.

Primary liver cancer is a common malignant tumor in China. About 260,000 patients worldwide die of liver cancer every year, of which China accounts for 42.5%. Experts say that in recent years, liver cancer has changed from "incurable disease" to "partially treatable disease", and the 5-year survival rate has also increased from 2.6% to 20.6%. However, the etiology of liver cancer is still unclear, and the medical community thinks that it is the result of a combination of many factors, mainly related to hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, aflatoxin, drinking water pollution, lack of some trace elements, genetic factors and alcoholism.

Therefore, avoiding infection with hepatitis B and hepatitis C, avoiding eating polluted water and food, and limiting long-term excessive drinking are the main conditions to prevent the formation of liver cancer.

In the past, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy were commonly used to treat tumors, but they had great toxic and side effects. Many patients can't tolerate radiotherapy and chemotherapy and stop treatment or are extremely weak after treatment, resulting in toxic and side effects such as low immune function. Leukopenia, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms. Most of them will occur during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and symptoms of qi and blood weakness will appear after surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy. During and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it is also easy to cause qi and blood yin deficiency (dry mouth, hemoptysis due to yin deficiency, blood heat bleeding).