| Liver cancer is a life-threatening disease that can be | | | | the cancer cells are found is completely removed. |
| extremely devastating to anyone who is afflicted | | | | This treatment is recommended for those with |
| with it as well as those around him. Anyone | | | | cirrhosis of the liver. Surgery is not guaranteed to |
| experiencing symptoms associated with cancer of | | | | stop the development of cancer as it can still recur in |
| the liver should seek medical care at the soonest | | | | the remaining liver or in other areas of the body |
| possible time. Symptoms of cancer of the liver are | | | | within a few years. Liver transplantation is another |
| not usually recognizable as a manifestation of the | | | | surgical procedure that can be considered for those |
| disease as they are not unusual - loss of appetite and | | | | in the early stages of cancer but not for those with |
| weight, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and | | | | larger tumors. |
| general weakness. Those who experience extreme | | | | Drug-based treatments such as alcohol injection, |
| symptoms like abdominal swelling and yellowish | | | | chemoembolization, and chemotherapy can also be |
| discoloration of skin and eyes would most likely be in | | | | done to kill the cancer cells. Alcohol injection uses |
| the advance stages of liver cancer. Medical care for | | | | pure alcohol that is injected directly into the tumors |
| anyone afflicted with cancer of the liver is a must. | | | | to dry out the cancer cells and eventually kill them. |
| Primary liver cancer instances in the United States are | | | | This has been known to increase the survival rate of |
| increasing over the years as are metastatic cancer or | | | | those who have hapatocellular tumors. |
| cancer that spreads to the liver from other parts of | | | | Chemoembolization and chemotherapy, on the other |
| the body. These cancers are not labelled as liver | | | | hand, introduce anti-cancer drugs into the body either |
| cancer but as metastatic cancer of whatever organ | | | | systemically or directly to the liver. Chemotherapy is |
| they originated from (i.e. metastatic colon cancer for | | | | not entirely effective in most cases as is |
| cancer of the colon spreading into the liver). | | | | chemoembolization since it only works to shrink the |
| Treatment for these types of cancers are done in | | | | tumors in most patients. |
| the originating organ rather than in the liver itself. In | | | | Radiofrequency ablation and radiation therapy makes |
| extreme cases or cases where the cancer can no | | | | use of electric current and energy beams in |
| longer be treated, medical care and pain management | | | | destroying cancer cells. Unresectable hepatocellular |
| procedures are done to maintain a patient's quality of | | | | tumors are targeted by these procedures. Both |
| life. | | | | procedures are more effective than drug treatments |
| Depending on what stage the cancer is, primary liver | | | | in treating malignant cells although they also pose |
| cancer can be treated to either remove or slow | | | | higher risks in terms of complications. |
| down the development of the disease. Common | | | | Anyone who has been diagnosed with liver cancer |
| treatment procedures would include surgery, alcohol | | | | should not brush it off. The earlier the cancer is |
| injection, radiofrequency ablation, chemoembolization, | | | | detected and treatment is commenced, the better it |
| radiation therapy, and liver transplant. With surgery, | | | | is for the patient. Liver cancer patients should seek |
| otherwise called as surgical resection, the area where | | | | the right medical care for their affliction. |