Monday, March 17, 2008

Primary Liver Cancer Clinical clear

(A) According to the National Liver Cancer research collaboration in the preparation of staging criteria:
Ⅰ period: no obvious signs and symptoms, also known as sub-clinical stage.
Phase Ⅱ: a clinical symptoms or signs of surface without those Ⅲ.
Ⅲ period: obviously evil of quality, jaundice, ascites, and one or distant metastasis.
Ⅰ for the period of sub-clinical stage liver cancer, confirmed by surgery for a single tumor nodules of less than 5 cm in diameter as small hepatocellular carcinoma; most of small hepatocellular carcinoma or liver cancer for the sub-clinical stage Ⅰ liver cancer. However, the following exceptions, but that liver cancer is small or near the liver edge pedicle droop easily palpable; early distant metastasis, or cancer nodules small but long-in the liver surface bleeding, acute abdomen, . Instead, in the non-tumor-key position, even if the tumor nodules larger than 5 cm in diameter can not emerge symptoms and signs, it also includes sub-clinical cancer larger than 5 cm in diameter of the tumor.

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