Liver Cancer
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Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It filters harmful substances from the blood, digests fats from food and stores the sugar that your body uses for energy. Primary liver cancer starts in the liver. Metastatic liver cancer starts somewhere else and spreads to your liver.
Risk factors for primary liver cancer include
- Having hepatitis
- Having cirrhosis, or scarring of liver
- Being male
- Low weight at birth
Symptoms can include a lump or pain on the right side of your abdomen and yellowing of the skin. However, you may not have symptoms and the cancer may not be found until it is advanced. This makes it harder to treat. Treatment options include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or liver transplantation.
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Liver cancer
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medicinenet.com — “Get information on liver cancer, its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, staging, prognosis, treatment, and prevention.” View full resource at medicinenet.com
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Earlier Diagnosis Of Liver Cancer
medicalnewstoday.com — “Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common cancer to strike the liver. More than 500,000 people worldwide, concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, are diagnosed with it yearly. Mos” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
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Hope for liver cancer patients
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Liver Cancer Podcast
muschealth.com — “Liver Cancer: An Overview - MUSC - Learn more about Liver Cancer in this health podcast” View full resource at muschealth.com
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Predicting Spread of Liver Cancer
disabled-world.com — “Potential biomarker for predicting future metastasis in patients with the most common form of liver cancer” View full resource at disabled-world.com
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facebook.com — “Pacific Oncology and Hematology Associates wrote: Liver #Cancer Incidence is on the Rise... Join Facebook to connect with Pacific Oncology and Hematology Associates and others you may know.” View full resource at facebook.com
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Protein Examined for Role in Liver Cancer:
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Clues to Preventing Return of Liver Cancer:
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Hypothyroidism in women associated with liver cancer
physorg.com — “Women with a history of hypothyroidism face a significantly higher risk of developing liver cancer, according to a new study in the May issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).” View full resource at physorg.com
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Finally, A Blood Test For Liver Cancer? |
myhealthbeijing.com — “A Chinese team has designed a blood test which may be more accurate than the common AFP test. This hopefully will turn out to be truly effective, especially for China, as liver cancer from hepatitis B is extremely common.” View full resource at myhealthbeijing.com
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New suppressor of common liver cancer
feeds.sciencedaily.com — “Tumor suppressor genes make proteins that help control cell growth. Mutations in these genes that generate nonfunctional proteins can contribute to tumor development and progression. One of the most well-known tumor suppressor genes is BRACA1, mutations in which are linked to breast cancer. Researchers have now identified SCARA5 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma, a form of liver cancer that is the fifth most common cancer worldwide” View full resource at feeds.sciencedaily.com
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New suppressor of common liver cancer
physorg.com — “Tumor suppressor genes make proteins that help control cell growth. Mutations in these genes that generate nonfunctional proteins can contribute to tumor development and progression. One of the most well-known tumor suppressor genes is BRACA1, mutations in which are linked to breast cancer. Ze-Guang ...” View full resource at physorg.com
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