The various stages of liver cancer treatment principles
(A) Early liver cancer, such as liver than its predecessor, with normal liver function, cirrhosis of the liver is not severe cases, surgery to remove the first choice. If abnormal liver function, can first liver protection with Chinese medicine or western medicine treatment, pending consideration of liver function recovery after surgery.
After the surgery, such as the cutting edge of a residual cancer, consideration should be given postoperative radiotherapy or intra-arterial chemotherapy. There are those of vascular thrombosis, postoperative medical treatment can be used in immune therapy, may wish to consider hepatic arterial chemotherapy and systemic chemotherapy. If residual tumor after surgical margin negative, portal vein tumor thrombosis were no postoperative use of Chinese medicine or biological therapy, so as to enhance the long-term efficacy.
(B) the medium-termLiver cancer
On the medium-term with normal liver functionLiver cancerTo strive for radical resection, such as the estimates can not be removed before surgery can be conducted through the hepatic artery embolization in the treatment gate (tae). Local radiation therapy. Biological treatment or the medical treatment, reduced the tumor, and then fight for surgical resection.
Confined to the liver tumor, size of 13cm or more, consider first intervention therapy, to intra-arterial injection of chemotherapy drugs or embolization, and then OK to be reduced liver radiation therapy, Chinese medicine treatment can be used at the same time. Because of interventional treatment for the maintenance of an effective short time, long-term efficacy is not high, in the intervention treatment, such as liver shrink should be combined with surgery or radiation therapy to improve long-term efficacy.
Lesions showed diffuse type of hepatocellular carcinoma who can be considered systemic chemotherapy. Such as the estrogen receptor-positive can also consider the use of tamoxifen (tamoxifen) therapy, or application of biological therapy and traditional Chinese medicine.
Diffuse lesions, such as liver, cirrhosis severe cases, Chinese medicine treatment can be based, we can use biological therapy or anti-estrogen therapy.
There are 13 liver cancer treatments Liver Cancer Treatments – Surgical Resection http://www.livercancer-stage.com/liver-cancer-treatments-surgical-resection/ Liver Cancer Treatments – Chemotherapy http://www.livercancer-stage.com/liver-cancer-treatments-chemotherapy/ Liver Cancer Treatments – Chemoembolization http://www.livercancer-stage.com/liver-cancer-treatments-chemoembolization/ Liver Cancer Treatments- Alcohol Injection,Hepatic Artery Infusion,Interstitial Laser Photocoagulation and Microwave,Portal Vein Embolization ,Isolated Liver Perfusion ,Liver Transplantation more post of 13 liver cancer treatments can be found in http://www.livercancer-stage.com/category/liver-cancer-treatments i personnaly suggestion is that before decides the liver cancer treatments you are going to choose, do some study on them, and choose the right treatments for you.