What is Liver Cancer?

About Liver Cancer

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.

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 ( 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 bermanisfestasi in many forms. Known as 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 Yag transmitted by contact with blood or body fluids of the patient.

Is similar to hepatitis B , hepatitis C also 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 cancer 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 liver transplantation process.