Signs And Symptoms Of Liver Cancer

Loss Of Appetite

A standard football is fairly large. Imagine a football sitting directly on top of the stomach. This is already happening, because remember, that’s the size of the average adult liver! When liver cancer interferes with the liver, the liver can enlarge and go through other changes that end up compressing the stomach. If the stomach is compressed, it cannot hold as much food as it did before. This often causes people to feel full faster. They will then start eating very little or even nothing at all. They will have lost their appetite! But yet again, this symptom is fairly easy to spot, especially for those who love to eat normally.

The buildup of toxins in the body due to the impaired liver function in liver cancer can also cause a loss of appetite. Toxins in the body like this make it no fun to eat. They’ll cause other symptoms like nausea and vomiting! Of course, a loss of appetite is yet another reason why people will find they lose weight unexpectedly if they have liver cancer.