According to China's 2020 statistics, liver cancer accounts for the fifth place among all cancers, and the number of people affected by it is about 410,000, because the number of liver cancer deaths is as high as 390,000.
From this data, the mortality rate of liver cancer is as high as more than 95%, and liver cancer is a great threat to the lives of patients.
The reason for this result is mainly related to the time of discovery of liver cancer. 80% of patients only learn that they have liver cancer in the middle and advanced stages. Many people will wonder, why liver cancer is rarely detected early.
1. Liver compensatory function is too strong
The reason why liver cancer is difficult to detect at an early stage is that the liver has a strong compensatory function in the human body. The advantage of this function is that the liver, even if a small part is missing, is likely to repair itself and regenerate, so that it grows into the original shape of the liver.
In addition, after the liver is damaged, its compensatory system will also try to help the liver perform its normal function and maintain normal function.
2. There is no pain nerve in the liver
There are no peripheral nerves inside the liver, only the liver envelope is clothed with pain nerves. Therefore, after the internal structure is damaged, it will not send a pain signal to the owner at the first time, so many liver diseases cannot be detected at an early stage.
Even if the cancer grows inside the liver and does not invade the liver envelope on the surface of the liver, it is difficult for patients to know that there is a problem with the liver.
3. Do not understand the symptoms of liver cancer
Clinically, many liver cancer patients have not understood the symptoms and manifestations of liver cancer before the diagnosis of liver cancer, so after the occurrence of liver cancer, they cannot find abnormalities at the first time, thus missing the opportunity for early diagnosis.
Here to remind everyone, if you find that the body has a poor face, digestive abnormalities, liver pain and other symptoms, we must be vigilant of liver problems.
Worsening of the face:
In the early stages of liver cancer, some patients will have abnormal facial appearance. This is because the liver is the detoxification organ of the human body, and if liver cancer occurs, it will lead to a decline in the detoxification function of the liver, resulting in the deposition of toxins in the body.
After a long time, it will cause skin spots or jaundice, making people's face and skin color worse and worse.
Digestive abnormalities:
According to clinical statistics, 40% of liver cancer patients have experienced digestive abnormalities in the early stage of the disease. Because the liver will be responsible for secreting bile, bile is conducive to the digestion of food, so it will cause liver cancer patients to appear do not like greasy, nausea and vomiting, bloating, diarrhea and other symptoms, let people mistakenly think that they have gastrointestinal diseases, did not take timely treatment measures for the liver, resulting in the further development of liver cancer, so that the symptoms of digestive abnormalities become more obvious.
Pain in the liver area:
If the cancer cells grow close to the liver envelope or are located in the liver envelope, the patient's liver envelope is easily pulled and stimulated, making it mildly painful.
Therefore, some patients will find that there is a vague pain or dull pain in the right upper abdomen in the early stage of liver cancer. If you do not go to the hospital in time, the cancer cells will further develop and the pain symptoms will be aggravated.
Reminder: The early detection rate of liver cancer is very low, mainly due to the strong compensatory function of the liver, the absence of peripheral nerves, and people do not know enough about liver cancer.
Therefore, if you find that your face is abnormal, digestive abnormalities or right upper abdominal pain, you must go to the regular hospital for examination in time, can not judge the condition without authorization and take drugs, so as not to cause more damage to the liver, so that liver cancer develops more seriously.