3. Itching
Individuals with liver cancer often notice that their skin starts to dry out and they experience symptoms of itchy skin. The itching isn’t confined to the area around the liver and may occur anywhere on the body. Itching also isn’t limited to liver cancer, as many forms of the disease pass on this symptom.
The most aggressive itching symptoms seem to come from individuals suffering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. However, brain cancer, bone cancer, and a variety of others also cause itching symptoms all over the body, and at any time of the day.
With liver cancer, it’s thought that the constant buildup of bile in the organ produces itching symptoms. Most practitioners and oncologists are at a loss to explain the source of the itching. Other medical professionals claim that tumors release chemicals that cause the itching. Doctors can relieve these itching symptoms using medications to treat the problem.