Liver Cancer: Ranked 3rd in the world cause of cancer death

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By nisya

Published: January 21, 2010

According to data the World Health Organization (WHO), to liver cancer is now ranked 3rd in the world as a cause of cancer-related deaths. Therefore, you must learn more about this deadly disease.

Recorded 625,000 cases of liver cancer diagnosed each year, where the mortality rate reaches 396,000 people per year. Generally, people with liver cancer are men with an age range 40-50 years. The main factors causing the high prevalence of liver cancer caused no typical symptoms at the early stage of development of liver cancer, which resulted in most patients diagnosed at an advanced stage.

Liver cancer is often called hepatocellular cancer is cancer that grows and develops in the cells or liver tissue. This cancer is not a result of Metastasis of cancer that occurs in other organs.

Liver is one of the largest organs contained in the human body. Located on the upper right abdomen and is protected in part by a rib. Liver has an important function, especially in the metabolism of food into energy as well as a blood storage organ.

According to the oncology surgeons from Northeast Georgia, Atlanta, United States (USA) Dr. Ken Dixon, liver cancer is often called the silent Desease because patients often have no symptoms until the cancer at later stages, so seldom found early.

As the cancer grows, some patients may experience symptoms such as abdominal pain in the upper right side through the back and shoulders, bloating, weight gain, loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, fever, and jaundice.

Some risk factors for hepatocellular cancer or liver cancer is gender. Men are more susceptible to liver cancer compared with women. This may have something to do with genetic factors.

Patients with hepatitis B and C chronic is a risk factor for the ultimate occurrence of liver cancer. Risks will increase if a person has both hepatitis simultaneously. About a third of people with cancer of the liver caused by hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is a liver cancer continues to increase throughout the world because many people infected with hepatitis C each year.

Although hepatitis C have no symptoms, liver damage and continues to be severe over time. When the liver becomes damaged (due to hepatitis C) the liver will repair itself to form a scar. Grated form is often called fibrosis. The more scar indicates the severity of the disease.

In fact, until this moment none of the doctors who can determine what causes a person suffering from cancer. Some experts could only find or to estimate the risk factors that are likely to cause a person suffering from cancer.

Anything that increases the likelihood that a person with cancer is a risk factor, while reducing the possibility of something called a cancer protective factor. Some risk factors for cancer could be avoided, but many are also inevitable at all.

One risk factor that can be avoided such as smoking habits, whereas the inevitable factors such as genetic or hereditary. Both these factors are both a risk factor for cancer. However, only smoke habits can be avoided.

In conclusion, if you do have risk factors as mentioned above, it’s good to see a doctor immediately for liver cancer screening. Take care of your heart!

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