The liver and the types of liver cancer, what causes it and raises the risk, and how it's diagnosed and treated.
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Your liver is the largest organ inside your body and helps your body digest food, store energy, and remove poisons. Liver cancer occurs when cancer cells form in the tissues of the liver. Primary liver cancer starts in the liver. Metastatic liver cancer starts somewhere else and spreads to your liver. Learn more about risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment.
The liver is the largest gland in the body, weighing about three pounds in an adult. The liver has many important functions, including filtering and detoxifying the blood, regulating hormones, and releasing nutrients into the body when needed. Learn more about the liver's many functions and how to keep it healthy.
Liver cancer occurs when malignant cancer cells form in the tissues of the liver. The most common form of liver cancer in adults is hepatocellular carcinoma. Learn about diagnosis, treatment, and how having hepatitis or cirrhosis can increase your risk for this disease.
Liver cancer is linked most often to long-term damage to the liver. Chronic hepatitis B and C infections are leading causes, since they can lead to cirrhosis, and heavy alcohol use and other cancer-causing infections also raise the risk.
Screening is looking for cancer before a person has any symptoms. Liver cancer screening may be recommended for adults at increased risk, those with chronic hepatitis B infection or cirrhosis of the liver. There is no standard or routine screening test for liver cancer. Learn about the tests that are being used or studied to screen for liver cancer.
Researchers are working to advance our understanding of how to prevent, detect, and treat liver cancer in adults and children. They are also looking for biomarkers that can provide information about liver cancer, such as how aggressive it is or whether it is likely to respond to a particular therapy. Learn about the latest research in liver cancer.
Adult primary liver cancer treatment options include surveillance, surgery, liver transplant, ablation, embolization, targeted therapy, and radiation. Get comprehensive information about liver cancer and treatment options in this clinician summary.
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