Diagnosis of Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is a part of the high incidence of the disease, but also a great loss! Cancer Symptoms and signs of some significance inspection signals sent through the body to identify and determine whether the cancer. Once you find yourself in a physical disorder of everyday life, need to go to hospital for examination.

Cancer experts of Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, early detection of liver cancer after treatment, 5-year survival rate can reach 70%, whereas in patients with advanced only half a chance to survive. Therefore, understanding the diagnosis of liver cancer is very important, early detection and early diagnosis is an important part of treatment.

Then what method of diagnosis of liver cancer?

1. Ultrasound: diagnosis of liver tumors is valuable for showing tumor size, shape, and the diagnosis rate of up to 84%, has a diameter of 2 cm or smaller lesions. This is a non-invasive examination methods, harmless to the human body. When losing weight, fatigue, pain and other symptoms of liver cancer is suspected, can perform these checks.

2, CT-Scan examination: high resolution CT, about 1.0cm in diameter can be detected at an early liver cancer, liver cancer diagnosis rate of up to 90%, but they are expensive. So do not be universally applied.

3, MRI examination: to increase the detection rate of small hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cancer and liver while local hyperplastic nodules, adenomas of the liver and other identification larger aid, can serve as an important complement to CT examination.

4, AFP: Clinically, alpha-fetoprotein is commonly used in the diagnosis of liver cancer, the method is simple and practical

5, selective celiac artery or hepatic artery angiography: a rich cancer blood vessels, can sometimes indicate the diameter 0.5-1cm of the disease, diagnostic accuracy rate of up to 90%. To determine the lesion location, size and distribution, particularly for small liver cancer diagnosis is the best variety screening method.

Effective treatment is early diagnosis of liver cancer is a prerequisite condition. With advances in medical technology, comprehensive treatment model continues to use the therapeutic effect of early HCC increased significantly. Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, the treatment of liver cancer, especially to see the deteriorating condition of the patient, to take medication, physical and psychological, etc. These factors can affect the treatment of patients with liver cancer and the survival time, of course, if in the beginning to take reasonable treatment options and effective, the possibility of long-term survival of early HCC is still very large.