Marcela Boyacá Mesa
Latin News Agency for Medicine and Public Health
Hepatocellular carcinoma also known as primary liver cancer is the most common cancer that affects this organ. However, what most affects the liver are tumors or cells that come from another part of the body, this process is known as metastasis, as explained in an exclusive interview for the Journal of Medicine and Public Health (MSP) by the hematologist and oncologist. José Cangiano Lespier who made an extensive tour of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
Symptoms
The liver is a filter, all the blood goes through the hepatoportal circulation, if there is any factor that is affecting the liver, the mechanism of this organ is immediately affected.
“Bilirubin is a waste that the liver works with it begins to rise many times, the filtering mechanism begins to be damaged, so the patient may begin to have symptoms that can range from nausea, weight loss, the taste it changes the patient, fullness symptoms on many occasions, and one of the most common things when the situation is already a little advanced is what is called jaundice and that bilirubin accumulates instead of going into the excreta that a pigment for the excreta it accumulates and the patient begins to turn yellow, the whites of the eyes called the sclera, the palate shows yellow, the palms of the hands begin to show yellow, and the patient often sees the urine, this waste of the urine is very yellow and it excretes many times as that color is not going out there the traditional color of the excreta is lost, which is a brown or dark brown color and this sometimes people do not like it to be spoken but it is i important ”.
See the full interview here