| Many years ago, and still in some European countries, | | | | old, and occurs twice as often in men as in women. |
| the liver is actively considered with such comments | | | | The liver is usually not the primary site of cancer. It is |
| as "I think that I have a cold on my liver". Now, we | | | | usually the result of metastasis from another location. |
| scarcely consider our liver, which is one of the very | | | | One successful treatment of cancer of the liver is |
| vital organs of our body, making up to 20% of our | | | | EMBOLOTHERAPY wherein very small pellets, called |
| body weight. | | | | mocrospheres, into an artery leading to the cancer |
| The liver is "the toxic waste dump' of our body and | | | | site in the liver. The pellets form plugs in the capillaries |
| processes toxins into a state that they can be | | | | to the cancer and starve it. |
| eliminated from our body. Some toxins require a lot | | | | The prognosis is that most patients succumb within 6 |
| of metabolic energy and are sent from one section | | | | months of diagnosis. |
| of the liver to another for processing. It is no wonder | | | | There are several promising alternative treatments |
| that our livers can be overloaded and made | | | | that strengthen the immune system to fight against |
| vulnerable to the degenerative disease of cancer. | | | | this disease. One such supplement is Leucophin. |
| There are two basic kinds of liver cancer. They are a | | | | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers herbal |
| hepotoma and cholangio carcinoma which is caused | | | | treatments that have been used for thousands of |
| by a parasite called a liver fluke. Primary this form of | | | | years. |
| cancer occurs usually occurs in people over 60 years | | | | |