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Types of Liver Cancer. Here is a little introduction about Liver Cancer disease and type. Hope it can make a useful bit of knowledge for all of us. Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer suffered by men and the seventh of cancer suffered by women. Liver cancer cases were encountered in those developing countries, especially in East and Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa. In 2008, found 694,000 cases of liver cancer and death from cancer makes the third cause of death in the world. In Indonesia alone, there were 13 238 cases of liver cancer cases and 112 825 deaths from liver cancer in 2008. See also what is hepatitis ?
Or liver cancer, also known as hepatoma begins with symptoms such as abdominal pain, weight loss and if touched the upper right abdomen will feel no lumps. Those who are infected with hepatitis B or C virus susceptible to liver cancer.
Liver cancer is one of the diseases associated with hepatobillier system and pancreas. Some other defect is gallstones, cirrhosis (hardening of the liver), hepatitis, liver tumors, fatty liver or fatty liver (a condition where there is excess fat in the liver) and pancreatic cancer. Liver dysfunction can be caused by several things, such as hepatitis virus infection, excessive alcohol consumption, diabetes, obesity, toxic substances, genetic disorders and cancer.
Abnormalities of the hepatobiliary system can also manisfestasi in many forms. Known as jaundice or jaundice is the most common symptom and the focus of the examination despite not always being the dominant symptom. Someone who is exposed to hepatitis or cirrhosis have jaundice symptoms, in which the skin and whites of the eyes turn yellow because of increased bilirubin in the blood plasma.
Bilirubin is the main product of expenditures that old red blood cells and filtered from the blood by the liver and released in the bile. If the liver is malfunctioning or damaged it will increase total bilirubin jaundice early lead.
Disorders of bilirubin in the bile duct drainage due to liver disorder called Intrahepatic jaundice. Acute and chronic hepatitis is one of the diseases associated with intrahepatic jaundice. A common type of hepatitis is hepatitis A attacks, B, and C. Hepatitis A is an acute liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus is transmitted through water or food contaminated with the virus. While hepatitis B is caused by hepatitis B virus that transmitted by contact with blood or body fluids of the patient.
Is similar to hepatitis B, hepatitis C too transmitted through contact with contaminated blood. Hepatitis C virus infection sometimes leads to acute disease that can turn into a chronic condition such as liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Many people are not aware of the symptoms of liver disease because symptoms do not appear to be a serious illness, such as the body feels tired and weak, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and fever, which is often regarded as a nuisance colds. They've taken seriously if you have bloody vomiting, yellowish skin and eyes, swelling and pain in the abdomen (stomach), easy bruising and bleeding (bleeding gums or nosebleeds) and mental disorders.
In the case of liver disease can be cured with therapy, treatment without having to replace the liver. But in cases where the liver is severely damaged, the patient will need a new heart through transplantation or liver transplantation process.
Heart / liver can develop primary liver cancer that arises in the liver, or cancer that forms in another organ and then spread to the liver. The majority of liver cancer is secondary or metastatic cancer, meaning derived from malignancies elsewhere. Worldwide, primary liver cancer attacked 2x males more than females, mostly affects people aged over 50 years.
Because the liver / heart consists of several types of cells, some types of tumors can form in the liver. There are liver tumors are benign and there are malignant (cancerous). Both types of tumors have different causes and are treated differently. Prospects for recovery depends on the type of tumor you have.
Common benign liver tumors are :
Generally benign liver tumors do not spread to tissues / organs other. These tumors can usually be cured by surgical removal, especially when they cause pain or bleeding.
Types of Liver Cancer
Or liver cancer, also known as hepatoma begins with symptoms such as abdominal pain, weight loss and if touched the upper right abdomen will feel no lumps. Those who are infected with hepatitis B or C virus susceptible to liver cancer.
Liver cancer is one of the diseases associated with hepatobillier system and pancreas. Some other defect is gallstones, cirrhosis (hardening of the liver), hepatitis, liver tumors, fatty liver or fatty liver (a condition where there is excess fat in the liver) and pancreatic cancer. Liver dysfunction can be caused by several things, such as hepatitis virus infection, excessive alcohol consumption, diabetes, obesity, toxic substances, genetic disorders and cancer.
Abnormalities of the hepatobiliary system can also manisfestasi in many forms. Known as jaundice or jaundice is the most common symptom and the focus of the examination despite not always being the dominant symptom. Someone who is exposed to hepatitis or cirrhosis have jaundice symptoms, in which the skin and whites of the eyes turn yellow because of increased bilirubin in the blood plasma.
Bilirubin is the main product of expenditures that old red blood cells and filtered from the blood by the liver and released in the bile. If the liver is malfunctioning or damaged it will increase total bilirubin jaundice early lead.
Disorders of bilirubin in the bile duct drainage due to liver disorder called Intrahepatic jaundice. Acute and chronic hepatitis is one of the diseases associated with intrahepatic jaundice. A common type of hepatitis is hepatitis A attacks, B, and C. Hepatitis A is an acute liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus is transmitted through water or food contaminated with the virus. While hepatitis B is caused by hepatitis B virus that transmitted by contact with blood or body fluids of the patient.
Is similar to hepatitis B, hepatitis C too transmitted through contact with contaminated blood. Hepatitis C virus infection sometimes leads to acute disease that can turn into a chronic condition such as liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Many people are not aware of the symptoms of liver disease because symptoms do not appear to be a serious illness, such as the body feels tired and weak, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and fever, which is often regarded as a nuisance colds. They've taken seriously if you have bloody vomiting, yellowish skin and eyes, swelling and pain in the abdomen (stomach), easy bruising and bleeding (bleeding gums or nosebleeds) and mental disorders.
In the case of liver disease can be cured with therapy, treatment without having to replace the liver. But in cases where the liver is severely damaged, the patient will need a new heart through transplantation or liver transplantation process.
Heart / liver can develop primary liver cancer that arises in the liver, or cancer that forms in another organ and then spread to the liver. The majority of liver cancer is secondary or metastatic cancer, meaning derived from malignancies elsewhere. Worldwide, primary liver cancer attacked 2x males more than females, mostly affects people aged over 50 years.
Because the liver / heart consists of several types of cells, some types of tumors can form in the liver. There are liver tumors are benign and there are malignant (cancerous). Both types of tumors have different causes and are treated differently. Prospects for recovery depends on the type of tumor you have.
Common benign liver tumors are :
- Hemangioma
- Hepatic adenoma
- Focal nodular hyperplasia
- Cyst
- Lipoma
- Fibroma
- Leiomyoma
Generally benign liver tumors do not spread to tissues / organs other. These tumors can usually be cured by surgical removal, especially when they cause pain or bleeding.
Types of Liver Cancer
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) : the most common form of liver cancer in adults. Patients with chronic hepatitis C have a higher risk of developing this type of cancer. This cancer starts in the hepatocytes, the main liver cell types. Approximately 3 out of 4 cancer that starts in the liver are this type. HCC may have a different growth pattern. Some began as a single tumor that grows larger. Only at the end of the trip, the disease does not spread to other parts of the liver. Others, began in many places throughout the liver, not as a single tumor. It is most commonly seen in people with cirrhosis of the liver and is the most common pattern seen, especially in developed countries where alcohol consumption is high.
- Bile duct cancers (cholangiocarcinomas) : bile duct cancers form a 1 or 2 out of every 10 cases of liver cancer. This cancer starts in the bile duct.
- Cancer that starts in the blood vessels in the liver (angiosarcomas and hemangiosarcomas) : It is a rare type of cancer that starts in the blood vessels of the liver. These tumors grow rapidly. Often when found they had spread so it can not be removed. Treatment may help slow the disease, but most patients do not live more than a year after the cancer was discovered.
- Hepatoblastoma : This species is very rare, usually found in infants. The main treatment is with surgery and chemotherapy. This disease has a survival of up to 90% when it is found at an early stage.
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