In recent years, the incidence of liver cancer has become increasingly high, and the incidence of liver cancer ranks fifth among cancers, and the mortality rate is second only to lung cancer. The mortality rate of liver cancer is so high, mainly related to hepatitis. If hepatitis is not treated for a long time, it may evolve into liver cancer, so if you want to prevent liver cancer, you must first prevent hepatitis.
Toxins and garbage in the body need the liver to carry out catabolism and detoxification, if the liver function is impaired, the ability to detoxify and metabolize is hindered, the body's garbage toxins can not be discharged in time, and long-term accumulation in the body will affect other organs of the body.
Liver damage to liver cancer requires three processes, first chronic liver disease, then cirrhosis, and finally liver cancer. In the early stage of liver cancer, because the cancer cells have not spread, timely surgery is carried out to remove the malignant tumor, and the cure rate is still relatively high.
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How long does it take for a malignant tumor of the liver to develop from 1 cm to 5 cm? The doctor answered, and most of them fell silent
Liver cancer is divided into large liver cancer and small liver cancer, under normal circumstances, the diameter of less than 5 cm is small liver cancer, the diameter of more than 5 cm is large liver cancer, the two in addition to the size of the difference, there are some similarities and differences.
The similarity between small and large liver cancers is that both livers are cancerous, and if you look at them biologically, the characteristics of the two are the same.
However, there are differences between the two in the process of treatment, small liver cancer is easy to remove, and there is no metastasis when it is found, but the cure rate of large liver cancer is relatively low, and the recovery effect of small liver cancer is better than that of large liver cancer.
If the survival time of 5 years is used as the standard, the survival rate of patients with small liver cancer is as high as 72%, and the survival rate of patients with large liver cancer is only 30%.
That is to say, the smaller the tumor size on the liver, the smaller the impact on the body, and the larger the tumor volume on the liver, the greater the impact on the body, and the more difficult it is to treat.
So, how long does it take for a tumor to develop from 1 cm to 5 cm?
Once, after a patient was diagnosed with liver cancer, because the tumor point was only one centimeter, the patient felt that surgery would damage the vitality, so he wanted to use home remedies to control it.
But three months later, the patient's physique became worse, and when he came to the hospital for review, he found that the tumor had grown to 5 centimeters, and in only three months, the tumor had developed from one centimeter to 5 centimeters, which also increased the difficulty of treatment.
This also reminds us that malignant tumors will continue to grow after they appear, and the speed is very fast, and everyone's physical fitness is different, so the rate of tumor growth is also different.
For our body, the tumor is like a predator, it needs to occupy a lot of resources and nutrients to maintain its own growth, so that the patient's body becomes worse and worse, and some patients will grow several times in less than three months.
02 From hepatitis to liver cancer, what changes does the body experience?
After the appearance of hepatitis will affect cell repair, after the increase of the number of cells in the lesion, liver function will decline, the liver can not decompose and metabolize food, patients will feel physical fatigue, poor appetite, indigestion.
More and more waste products accumulate in the body, which will affect blood delivery, the skin will become dry due to lack of nutrients, and the whole person's appearance will become worse and worse.
Then the liver slowly hardens, the process of liver lesions is relatively long, only when the damage is serious, the cells can not be repaired to achieve reversal, and the liver tissue is easy to proliferate and become larger.
If the liver is found to be enlarged during the physical examination, it is necessary to pay attention to it, and when the liver disease is aggravated, it is not necessary that the liver part will be painful, if the shoulders and waist feel pain, beware of the possibility of cancer.
03 How far is hepatitis from developing to liver cancer?
Studies have shown that patients with hepatitis B, especially Da Sanyang, under the premise of abnormal liver function, if there is no reasonable antiviral therapy, coupled with an unhealthy lifestyle, it may be transformed into cirrhosis in about 5 to 10 years.
Lifestyle plays a very important role in the process of hepatitis into liver cancer, if you drink alcohol and smoke frequently, overwork, high-fat diet, are all high risk factors for liver cancer.
04 2 priorities for preventing hepatitis B to become liver cancer
Vaccinations can be given to reduce the risk of contracting the hepatitis B virus at the source. However, the hepatitis B vaccine is not once and for all, and it is necessary to check the level of antibodies in the body for a long time and receive a hepatitis B booster injection.
Early detection and early treatment is an important step to prevent hepatitis B from becoming cirrhosis and liver cancer, and through physical examination, you can know whether you are infected with hepatitis B virus.
Transferred from: Li Lianhui, internal medicine professional attending physician Xixia County Xiping Town Health Center Dr. Li's science popularization