Liver cancer is a disease that needs to be watched, especially for those who have risk factors, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, drinking too much alcohol, and obesity because it can lead to fatty liver.
Liver disease expert Gleneagles Hospital Singapore, doctors Cheah Yee Lee, revealed, there are some symptoms that people experience when suffering from liver cancer. "Symptoms include abdominal pain upper right, sudden weight loss with no known cause, and swelling in the abdomen due to ascites or accumulation of fluid in the abdomen," said Cheah in Operation Yellow Campaign discussion in Jakarta, Friday (09/18/2015).
Upper right abdominal pain sometimes radiating to the back and shoulders. Can also feel obstruction or bloating after eating. Health was deteriorated abruptly in patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis. In addition, symptoms may also be accompanied by high fever, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting.
Typical symptoms are yellowing of the skin or the eyes, known as jaundice. Jaundice occurs in those who have suffered liver damage. Jaudice arise because of bilirubin, the yellow pigments that accumulate in the blood.
In people with normal liver function, bilirubin should be carried by the blood to the liver, and then through digestion to ultimately wasted through feces. However, in people who have damaged heart function, bilirubin instead accumulates in the blood and stored in the skin and eyes so yellow. As a result, urine is also dark because bilirubin can not be excreted through feces. It also makes colors look pale feces.
Unfortunately, these symptoms usually appear when the cancer has entered advanced stage. In the early stages, liver cancer often does not bring up the typical symptoms so that undiagnosed. To that end, a regular screening is very important, especially for those who have risk factors.
"Prevention is more important. One of them with a blood test to determine the presence or absence of infection with hepatitis B and C, "said Cheah.
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