Liver cancer, also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy, is cancer that starts in the liver. Liver cancer can...
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (redirect from Secondary liver cancer)
primary liver cancer in adults and is currently the most common cause of death in people with cirrhosis. HCC is the third leading cause of cancer-related...
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progression may eventually lead to complications, such as cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure, and cardiovascular disease. Obesity and type 2 diabetes...
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of liver disease including alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. In the earlier stages of alcoholic liver disease...
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cirrhosis, liver cancer, and esophageal varices. The main subtypes of fatty liver disease are metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD...
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Cirrhosis (redirect from Liver cirrhosis)
Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is a condition of the liver in which the normal functioning...
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A liver metastasis is a malignant tumor in the liver that has spread from another organ affected by cancer. The liver is a common site for metastatic...
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Cholangiocarcinoma (redirect from Liver duct cancer)
Helicobacter bilis and Helicobacter hepaticus species can cause biliary cancer. Congenital liver abnormalities, such as Caroli disease (a specific type of five...
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sinonasal cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, cancers of the gallbladder, the adrenal gland, the small intestine, and various childhood cancers. Seven...
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most common cancer types, including bladder cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, kidney cancer, leukemia, liver cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, pancreatic...
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Sorafenib (section Liver cancer)
approved for the treatment of primary kidney cancer (advanced renal cell carcinoma), advanced primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), FLT3-ITD positive...
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treatment of liver cancer, such that risk of spread beyond liver is decreased (for those with primary liver cancer or secondary spread to the liver, the medical...
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different reason than the cancer itself), and the diagnosis is often confirmed with liver biopsy. Signs and symptoms of liver masses vary from being asymptomatic...
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other healthy liver cells. Epirubicin TACE has also been used to treat people with lung primary cancer or metastases. head and neck cancer. As with any...
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Citrate–malate shuttle (section Liver cancer)
to develop liver cancer. Moreover, overloading of mitochondria may occur. There is an increase in reactive oxygen species level in the liver. Those species...
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original A-D stages or by TNM. Kidney cancer: uses TNM. Cancer of the larynx: Uses TNM. Liver cancer: Uses TNM. Lung cancer: uses TNM. Melanoma: TNM used. Also...
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Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the...
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Sirtex (section Primary liver cancer)
medical device company, providing radioactive treatment for inoperable liver cancer called SIR-Spheres microspheres. Sirtex was established in 1997 in Australia...
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Hepatitis B (category Infectious causes of cancer)
those with chronic disease have no symptoms; however, cirrhosis and liver cancer eventually develop in about 25% of those with chronic HBV. The virus...
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Alcohol and cancer have a complex relationship. Alcohol causes cancers of the oesophagus, liver, breast, colon, oral cavity, rectum, pharynx, and larynx...
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accessory organs of digestion (pancreas, liver, gall bladder) are responsible for more cancers and more deaths from cancer than any other system in the body...
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Hepatitis C (category Infectious causes of cancer)
liver disease and occasionally cirrhosis. In some cases, those with cirrhosis will develop serious complications such as liver failure, liver cancer,...
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Aflatoxin (redirect from Aflatoxicosis and cancer effects of Aflatoxin)
stunted growth, delayed development, aflatoxicosis, food spoilage and liver cancer. Some studies have reported an association between childhood stunting...
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Hepatoblastoma (category Gastrointestinal cancer)
Hepatoblastoma is a malignant liver cancer occurring in infants and children and composed of tissue resembling fetal liver cells, mature liver cells, or bile duct...
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Oncovirus (redirect from Virus cancer link)
occurring over decades of infection, as is the case for HCV-induced liver cancer. These two mechanisms differ in their biology and epidemiology: direct...
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Angiosarcoma (redirect from Vascular cancer)
Primary angiosarcoma of the liver is the third most common type of liver cancer however it only makes up 0.1–2.0% of all liver cancers. It is rapidly fatal with...
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Aristolochic acid (section Liver cancer)
these compounds are widely associated with kidney problems, liver and urothelial cancers, the use of AA-containing plants for medicinal purposes has a...
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Hepatitis (redirect from Liver inflammation)
result in acute liver failure. Chronic hepatitis may progress to scarring of the liver (cirrhosis), liver failure, and liver cancer. Hepatitis is most...
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The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification...
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the liver may be either benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Tumors can start in the liver, or spread to the liver from another cancer in the...
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