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Liver Cancer

Hepatocellular Carcinoma generally known under the name of liver cancer is a mortal disease. It will kill almost all the patients who have it in one year. Majority of the common parts of the world with high rate of people affected by this disease are Saharan Africa and the South-East Asia.

Liver which is the largest organ in the body is found behind the ribs on the right side of the abdomen and it has two parts: the right lobe and the smaller left lobe. It has many important functions which maintain a person in good health; it removes harmful materials of blood, it makes the enzymes and the bile which help us to digest food, and it also converts the food into necessary substances required for the life and the growth. The liver obtains its blood supply from two vessels, the hepatic portal vein from where the majority of blood come, and the rest comes from the hepatic artery.

The hepatic tumours are tumours or growths on or in the liver, which can be benign or malignant. The tumours of the liver occur when there is an inaccuracy in the normal control of growth of all the cells in the liver, including the liver cells themselves, bile duct, or blood vessels in the liver. The liver cancer can lead to the enlarging of liver which can have the consequence such as pain in the higher abdomen or pain in the right shoulder. There are some other common symptoms of liver cancer like nausea, the weakness, the loss of weight etc. Other symptoms of liver cancer include the jaundice and the misbalance of fluid in the body.
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The best manner of preventing the liver cancer is to avoid the risk factors which are related with lung cancer. To keep far away from the excessive use of alcohol and nicotinism can reduce the risk of liver cancer. The prevention and the treatment of the infections of HBV and HCV are also important. The suitable treatment of water can reduce the risk of arsenic in drinking water. The good treatment of the inherited diseases related to the cirrhosis and the liver cancer can reduce the risk of develop both these disease. Although the risk of liver cancer cannot be decreased to zero, it can be reduced by avoiding known risk factors.

The treatments for the liver cancer are little. The symptoms of liver cancer are not usually obvious until the hepatic tumour is advanced, thus detection is often too late. Other risk factors, such as cirrhosis, usually make the surgery or other treatments risky. The treatment of liver cancer includes the surgery, the radiological procedures, the radiation therapy, innovating chemotherapy and other treatments

The surgery can remove a small tumour in liver through a process known the as resection. If all the obvious evidences of the tumour are removed, the chances of the survival rise to 25%. The successful resections, however, are rare: often, the cirrhosis complicates the surgery, leaving a liver too damaged to function after the surgery.

The liver transplantation is possible, but it is not the principal techniques used against the liver cancer. The radiation therapy and chemotherapy usually have limited effect on hepatic tumours. A new approach, selective internal radiation therapy provides a high amount of radiation directly to the tumour without affecting the surrounding healthy tissues.

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