Liver Cancer Treatment – Secondary liver cancer
Also known as metastatic liver cancer secondary liver cancer. Malignant human body, can be with the blood, lymph metastasis to the liver, or direct invasion, the formation of secondary liver cancer, secondary liver cancer in the clinical manifestations of cancer in general only the performance of the original organ involvement without severe liver symptoms, patients fatigue, anorexia, sweating, fever, weight loss and other symptoms, liver function tests even when significantly enlarged in the liver, may still be normal, but the serum carcinoembryonic antigen tests are often significantly higher, B Super, CT abnormality of liver lesions. Secondary liver cancer prognosis is usually the primary tumor and the degree of malignancy, prognosis is poor. In primary tumor therapy and upstream operations, comprehensive treatment such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Many organs can be transferred to liver cancer, particularly abdominal visceral cancer, such as stomach, colon, gallbladder, pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer and other more common. In addition, breast, lung, kidney, nasopharyngeal cancer and other parts can also be transferred to the liver.
Symptoms and signs
Secondary liver cancer often caused by extrahepatic primary cancer symptoms as the main performance. However, some patients have emerged, such as weight loss, fatigue, liver pain, liver nodular mass, even ascites, jaundice and other symptoms of secondary liver cancer after the primary foci not easily found. Therefore, sometimes difficult to differentiate primary liver cancer. General clinical manifestations of secondary liver cancer less often, slow progression
