Dad was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. Do you choose treatment or take him on a trip?

Dad was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. Do you choose treatment or take him on a trip?

Actually, it depends on the specific condition. For cancer, it has been proved that many patients recover successfully within 5 years to 10 years after treatment. But it depends on the specific situation of the patient! Correct treatment and rehabilitation can help patients prolong their lives!

I have listed all possible treatment options for patients with liver cancer for your reference:

First, the best treatment for liver transplantation is liver transplantation. Its advantages are: not only the tumor is removed, but also the liver with cirrhosis is removed, and with certain measures, the hepatitis B virus in the body can even be eradicated.

But liver transplantation also has limitations:

High cost. Surgery and postoperative anti-rejection drugs together, at least 654.38+00,000+. Liver source is hard to find. China has explicitly banned the use of organs of condemned prisoners. At present, there are only two sources of organs, one is liver donation from immediate family members, and the other is voluntary donation from citizens after their death due to car accidents and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. The incidence of postoperative complications including rejection and infection is high. In order to ensure the effect, the industry has set a threshold for liver transplant recipients, probably that the tumor should not be too big and there should be no vascular invasion. The patient in question "the tumor is eighteen centimeters big" obviously does not meet the transplant criteria. This means that according to previous data, even if such patients are transplanted, the recurrence rate will be relatively high. Secondly, surgical hepatectomy is a traditional and ancient method, but it is still the main radical treatment, which can be described as a classic treatment. Of course, detailed preoperative evaluation is needed, and it should be considered from the perspective of feasibility and safety.

I must make it clear here that the level of hepatectomy in different hospitals varies greatly. Major hepatobiliary centers in China will treat a large number of patients with liver cancer who are judged by local hospitals as "Hua Tuo's reincarnation is useless" and finally perform successful surgery for them. Seeing that the problem patient is seeing a doctor in the "local corps hospital", I don't think I should give up and take the information to the hepatobiliary center in the big city.

Here, by the way, I would like to vomit a statement that "Hua Tuo's reincarnation is useless". If an industry has developed for two thousand years, the highest level is still the ancestors. Is this industry really reliable? I dare say that Hippocrates will never cure liver cancer, but some unheard-of hepatologists may have a solution.

Thirdly, interventional therapy briefly describes the principle of this minimally invasive treatment: through the femoral artery of the thigh, into the catheter until the hepatic artery is found, and then superselective into the tumor feeding artery, local infusion of chemotherapy drugs, and then injection of iodized oil to embolize the artery.

Strictly speaking, this method is not a curative treatment, and in many cases, liver lesions will remain. However, its advantage is less trauma. Many patients who can't tolerate surgery control the development of the disease in this way, buy time for follow-up treatment, and cooperate with surgery, ablation and other means to achieve the purpose of cure.

Fourthly, radiofrequency ablation is simply to destroy tissues in a certain range through the high temperature generated by the needle tip. According to the current guidelines, the effect of this method is not inferior to surgical resection for primary liver cancer less than 3cm. It is especially suitable for patients who are afraid of surgery, intolerant or have small postoperative lesions.

V. Drug Control When it comes to drug control, the first thing people think of is chemotherapy. However, unlike lung cancer, gastric cancer and colorectal cancer, there is no recommended first-line chemotherapy scheme for primary liver cancer in domestic and foreign guidelines at present, which means that the chemotherapy effect of liver cancer is not good.

Another drug therapy is targeted therapy, and there is only one drug (also approved by FDA) specially recommended for targeted therapy of liver cancer-sorafenib. But it has two problems: first, therapeutic drugs are very expensive. At present, there are charitable projects in China, and it costs more than 100 thousand yuan to give drugs for three months. Secondly, the effective rate of sorafenib is not high, and the side effects are not small, and there is no way for patients to judge whether it is effective before and after using it. In short, just try.

Sixth, I don't recommend Chinese medicine, and others will recommend it. Why can't advanced patients have better treatment? Chinese medicine is very effective. At the same time, Chinese medicine has helped many cancer patients recover. I don't advise you. I remind you of two points: first, don't delay the formal treatment while Chinese medicine is treating. Second, we must be alert to particularly expensive Chinese medicines to prevent being fooled.