| Liver cancer can be of different types. They are | | | | because of any complication arising from hepatitis. |
| hemangiomas, hepatic adenomas and focal nodular | | | | Although it has been seen that in many cases in |
| hyperplasia. Hepatic adenoma is also known as | | | | Africa and Asia, the cancer results in people who |
| primary liver cancer. They generally occur in the right | | | | have no history of alcohol abuse. |
| hepatic lobe of the liver and are not very common in | | | | There is a belief that there is possibly a link between |
| occurrence. This type of cancer is generally seen in | | | | obesity and liver cancer. Researchers from John |
| populations of Asia and Africa. It is not common in | | | | Hopkins Medical School, the University of California, |
| western countries. | | | | Los Angeles, believe that obesity is an even bigger |
| When it happens in developed countries, it generally | | | | causal factor for liver cancer than for cirrhosis. When |
| occurs in middle age and elderly people. It is also | | | | the patients were observed, more than half of them |
| found to be twice occurring in men than in women. | | | | had a higher BMI or Body Mass Index than what was |
| Most of the patients with this type of cancer are the | | | | normal. This happens more in elderly people, as with |
| ones who have liver cirrhosis. This disease happens | | | | age the weight increases and the liver becomes |
| because of chronic alcoholism which results in nodal | | | | more susceptible to being weak and losing its |
| regeneration of hepatocytes. | | | | compensation ability. |
| There may be other forms of cancer which happen | | | | |