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Liver cancer treatment: when to get help

Go through these in order and stop at the first one that applies. If you are reading this for someone else, answer for them.

  1. 1

    Is any of this happening now?

    Call 911

    Seek emergency help for:

    • Trouble breathing or chest pain
    • Heavy bleeding or vomiting blood
    • Black, tar-like bowel movements
    • Fainting, severe weakness, or new confusion
    • Sudden severe abdominal pain
    • Signs of a severe allergic reaction, such as facial swelling
    Other emergency signs, for anyone
    • Someone who is struggling to breathe, gasping, choking, or cannot get words out
    • Someone who has chest pain, tightness or pressure lasting more than a few minutes
    • Someone who has sudden weakness or drooping on one side of the face or body, slurred speech, or sudden confusion
    • Someone who is unconscious, or cannot be woken
    • Someone who is bleeding heavily and it will not stop with firm pressure
    • Someone who has had a seizure that will not stop, or does not wake up afterwards
    • Someone who has lips or skin that look pale, blue, grey or blotchy
    • Someone who you believe has taken an overdose or swallowed something poisonous
  2. 2

    Is any of this happening?

    Be seen today

    Contact your healthcare team promptly for increasing pain, repeated vomiting, worsening abdominal swelling, a new fever, redness or drainage from an incision, yellowing of the skin or eyes, or side effects that interfere with drinking, eating, or taking medicines.

  3. 3

    Does any of this apply?

    Book an appointment

    Keep routine follow-up appointments even when you feel well.

    These visits are used to check liver function, manage side effects, and look for treatment response or recurrence.

    And for anyone, someone who:

    • has noticed a lump, a mole that has changed, or unexplained weight loss

Every sign above is quoted from the sofidex article on Liver cancer treatment. If you are not sure, err upward — it is always reasonable to be checked.