Secondary liver cancer

Secondary liver cancer

The liver is the organ responsible for filtering blood flowing in the body. It acts as a filter to purify it from toxins and convert substances that feed the body and drugs into chemicals that are ready for use and gain the rest of the body, making the liver a vital, vital and necessary organ.

When the cancer moves to the liver from another area, it is called “secondary liver cancer” because the liver was not the origin of the cancer, but moved to it By blood.

The symptoms of liver cancer are: Feeling heavy in the upper abdomen or mass, accompanied by severe pain, fatigue and fatigue, anorexia and abdominal cramps, weight loss, feeling full, symptoms of fever may appear on the patient, nausea with vomiting and urine Dark color and pale stools.

Symptoms often take a while to appear and this does not help the patient, because he may be in a late state of liver cancer, which is not allowed to heal completely.

Cancer is caused by the non-death of damaged cells in the body and the development of cancerous cancerous tumors that move to adjacent parts of the body, begins to weaken the organ that originated and moving through the blood vessels from place to place.

Liver cancer affects overweight people with hepatic cirrhosis, who are more than 50 years old and more frequent in men than women. Drinking alcohol is a factor in liver cancer.

Secondary liver cancer can be diagnosed through several tests, such as: The extraction is the only test capable of distinguishing between malignant tumor and benign and then additional tests such as: blood tests, ultrasound, computerized tomography, laparoscopy and ultrasound scan.

There are several solutions to help prolong the life of the patient liver cancer: the removal of tumors in surgery if detected early, and a few rare cases where the detection of cancer early, and in the case of secondary liver cancer is difficult to treat surgery because the origin of cancer elsewhere, and may Infections in the body and injury to the liver.

There are some new treatments that give patients hope to prolong their lives, such as cryotherapy, where the tumor is cooled and frozen by radio waves to destroy the tumor.

Radiation therapy is performed in several ways but the liver may not tolerate radiotherapy for a long time, and is used to relieve symptoms and reduce the size of the tumor.

Liver transplantation is a last option available, a dangerous operation, but may restore the patient’s recovery. Some patients are in late stages of cancer, and their body is not allowed because of weakness.