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Liver Cancer
What is Liver Cancer ?
Liver cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the liver.
Causes of Liver Cancer
Most liver tumors have spread (metastasized) to the liver from other organs, most commonly the colon, rectum, lung, breast, pancreas and stomach. When a cancer has spread from somewhere else, the cancer cells are the same in both places. For example, if lung cancer spreads to the liver, the cancerous cells in the liver are the same as the cancerous cells in the lung.
Symptoms of Liver Cancer
Symptoms usually do not appear until the disease is advanced. They can include:
- Unexplained weight loss
- Loss of appetite
- Feeling full after a small meal
- Pain or swelling, especially in the upper-right abdomen
- Jaundice (yellow coloration of the skin and eyes)
- Worsening of chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis
Diagnosis of Liver Cancer
Liver cancer most often is diagnosed in later stages of the disease because symptoms do not appear until then. Once your doctor suspects your might have liver cancer, he or she will use one or more of the following methods to diagnose the disease:
- Physical examination
- Blood tests
- Computed tomography (CT) scan
- Ultrasound
- Hepatic artery angiogram
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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