Symptoms include bilateral leg edema and a number of others. Some of the other common symptoms are fatigue, lethargy, cold intolerance, weight gain, depression, slow speech, forgetfulness, constipation and coarse skin. Blood clots can get lodged in the deep veins of the legs or pelvis.
What are the results (survival and recurrence) of liver resection? For HCC patients whose tumors are successfully resected, the five-year survival is about 10% to 60%, depending on the tumor size. This means that 10% to 60 % of patients who actually undergo liver resection for liver cancer are expected to live five years.
Contemporary studies report 1-year, 10-year and 18-year survival at 83â88%, 68â72%, and 48â56% respectively. As survival and clinical outcomes of liver transplantation improve, the focus has shifted to quality of life (QOL) outcomes after surgery. This is particularly important since patients' QOL is already greatly diminished before surgery due to symptoms, and emotional and social stress.