Liver Cancer-Live To Give To Waste
July 18, 2008
What is liver cancer and how it affects the body?
Liver cancer is a cancer that begins in the liver and builds up in the liver in the early stages of the cancer and spreads throughout the body in the later stages of the cancer. Also, for liver cancer, the cancer does not have to originally come from the liver to be liver cancer and can come from other parts of the body and then spreads to the liver.
As the world’s fifths most common cancer, liver cancer is very deadly and kills almost every one that is affected by the cancer. Liver cancer is found all over the world and in countries in Southeast Asia and in sub-Saharan Africa.
Who is at risk for livers cancer?
The people who are the most likely to get liver cancer are those who have both Hepatitis B and C infections, those who drink excessive amounts of alcohol (and they are most likely to get the cirrhosis of the liver), those who take female hormones, which has liver cancer causing agents in them, those who have retain amounts of Alfa toxin in their body and those suffer from hemochromatosis or those who have excess amounts of irons in their body.
What are the symptoms of liver cancer?
The most common symptoms of liver cancer is pains in the stomach, unexplained weight loss and/or unexplained fevers, the buildup of fluids in the stomach, and the yellowing of the skin or jaundice.
How can liver cancer be diagnosed?
Liver cancer can be diagnosed by extensive blood testing, using markers to find tumors in the liver and through studies using radiological imaging. In those blood test, doctors check for the number of red blood cells in the body, low blood sugar, the amount of calcium in the blood and the amount of serum in the blood.
Can liver cancer be treated and if so, how?
Yes, liver cancer can be treated but only in the early stages of the disease where the cancer has not spread throughout over parts of the body. The type of treatments for liver cancer primarily depends on the physical shape of the patient.
There is only one known proven cure for liver cancer and that is the total removal of the liver that has small tumors, from the body and replacing it with a new liver that was donated to be used by the recipient. This practice has been challenged by most doctors as unnecessary, saying that only the removal of the tumor or tumors in the liver is necessary.
The only way to treat liver cancers is to treat them at the early stages of the disease because treatments after these stages will hove no effect in removing the cancer, since the cancer has already spread throughout the body at that point.
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