How much do you know about the treatment of liver cancer?

Liver cancer is a malignant disease, and the treatment should be judged according to the condition evaluation. Surgical resection is the first choice for the treatment of liver cancer. However, in China, less than half of the patients are often surgically removed, only about 20%. In addition to surgical resection, there is also radiofrequency ablation, and microwave ablation, a minimally invasive method of internal medicine, often has limited indications and is only suitable for cases with lesions less than 3cm.

After further progress, TACE therapy, that is, hepatic artery embolization, has a wide range of applications, and can be embolized as long as it is inoperable tumor and liver cancer. The next step is radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for liver cancer is not very good, but it still plays a very good role in our portal vein tumor thrombus and some dangerous parts. Then molecular targeted therapy. The latest guidelines recommend that 1-2 drugs can be used for molecular targeted therapy. The next step is Chinese herbal medicine therapy in China. In this case, it often doesn't have much effect.

With the development of medicine, there are more and more treatment methods for liver cancer, but for early liver cancer and small liver cancer, surgical resection is the first choice as far as possible, and those who cannot be resected can adopt other comprehensive treatment modes. For patients with surgical indications, surgical resection is the best treatment, but due to the high recurrence rate after operation, other treatments and regular follow-up are needed after operation.

Common local treatments include hepatic arterial chemotherapy, embolization and absolute alcohol injection. In recent years, radiofrequency ablation and microwave ablation, high-power focused ultrasound therapy and laser therapy are popular. At present, these methods and effects are good, and there are many clinical applications. In addition, there are radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy and biotherapy modes, and the specific situation should be decided according to the individual differences of patients and the characteristics of tumors.