Question 1

how will my doctor know if i have liver cancer?

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Screening: Patients identified at a high risk for liver cancer (hcc) will be offered screening by their physician.

Question 2

help doctors! what're your chances of living if you get liver cancer surgery?

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Depends on tumor: Nowadays you'll almost certainly leave the hospital alive after surgery. If it's a primary liver cancer and quite small and the surgeons are optimistic about getting it all, you chance of a cure nowadays is probably better than even. Even metastatic disease can be managed for some tumors over years or even decades. You have a right to know the odds from your physician, though, ; decide.

Question 3

my grandma is diagnosed with liver cancer. she is 70.  after biopsy doc says its in d 1st stage. and has to be operated. what r risks? sirvival rate?

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Liver ca: Risk for surgery will depend on her other medical condition- i.E- her heart and lung functions etc.  Surgical resection with negative margins will be the best therapy to cure the liver cancer. It is something that i would recommend to my patient- if the surgery can be done safely. Age is important, however how good overall condition will be even more important. Discuss with her mds.

Question 4

my father is liver cancer at the moment and his bilirubin level increasing almost 13. the doctors couldnt drain his liver. what can we do to dicrease?

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May not be possible.: Liver cancer is obviously very bad.  I'm sure I don't need to tell you that, given what you're going through with your father.  The increasing bilirubin may just be related to compression of the ducts from the growing tumor, and there may really be no way to lower it.  Unfortunately just another part of what he's unfortunately going through.

Question 5

need doctor's help! will liver cancer cause swelling in a leg?

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Yes it can: Swelling in the legs can occur due to many different liver ailments such as liver failure, blood clots in the legs or blood clots in the veins of the abdomen as well as veins in the liver itself as these veins are often compressed or invaded by the liver cancer resulting in swelling in the abdomen and in the legs..

Question 6

hi doctors i am scared that light colored stools indicate liver cancer please help me

Accepted Answer

See answer: Very pale or clay colored stools can indicate: 1-obstruction of the biliary tree by gallstones,pancreatic or biliary malignancy. 2-hepatitis 3- medication side effect.  It would be unlikely at your ago to have liver cancer. If your concerned speak with your doctor for a routine blood test to detect liver problems

Question 7

hi doctor i have anxiety over light colored stools indicating liver cancer pleases help me feel better?

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See below: There is no association between light colored stools and liver cancer.
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Question 8

birth control pills heighten the chances of liver cancer? a friend is in stage 4 cancer, the doctor blames bc pills. this worries me bc i am on bc

Accepted Answer

Possible low risk: Contraceptives are known to cause benign ' adenomas ' which may can cause liver bleeding . There may be slight increase of incidence of liver cancer for those who are on contraceptives for 5 or more yeas . Estrogens known to inhibit bilirubin and bile acid production which may be the cause . If you are concerned see your doctor for other  alternative method of birth control .

Question 9

looking for a doctor who specializes in small cell metastatic liver cancer.  can you recommend some in chicago? a friend has just been diagnosed as having inoperable liver/lung cancer.  doctors gave her 7 - 10 months to live.  we want to continue the figh

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Your : Your best bet would be a cancer program attached to one of the medical schools in chicago, such as northwestern or the university of chicago.  Those facilities are used to managing difficult cases like this and have access to research protocols that may not be available elsewhere.

It's hard to know, without more information, which specialists would be involved in your friend's case.  For example, if there is active, progressive disease in both the liver and lung, and if both sites have been called inoperable, then it will probably be a medical oncologist.  If the disease is stable in one site but progressive in the other, then organ-specific local therapy like radiation, radiofrequency ablation, chemoembolization, radioisotope embolization, and other options may exist. In such cases, the group of doctors might expand to include radiation oncologists, surgeons, and interventional radiologists, among others.

Question 10

urgent, doctors :'( my mom has metastases liver cancer, lung and bone nearby left thigh found tumors. just found out few days ago,  is stage 4. how?

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Yes: Unfortunate, but true. Cancer cells found any place other than the 'point of origin' makes it 'metastatic' and by established norms in TNM classification system, acquires a late stage...

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Help doctors! what're your chances of living if you get liver cancer surgery?

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My grandma is diagnosed with liver cancer. she is 70. after biopsy doc says its in d 1st stage. and has to be operated. what r risks? sirvival rate?

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My father is liver cancer at the moment and his bilirubin level increasing almost 13. the doctors couldnt drain his liver. what can we do to dicrease?

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Need doctor's help! will liver cancer cause swelling in a leg?

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Hi doctors i am scared that light colored stools indicate liver cancer please help me

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Hi doctor i have anxiety over light colored stools indicating liver cancer pleases help me feel better?

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Birth control pills heighten the chances of liver cancer? a friend is in stage 4 cancer, the doctor blames bc pills. this worries me bc i am on bc

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Looking for a doctor who specializes in small cell metastatic liver cancer. can you recommend some in chicago? a friend has just been diagnosed as having inoperable liver/lung cancer. doctors gave her 7 - 10 months to live. we want to continue the figh

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Urgent, doctors :'( my mom has metastases liver cancer, lung and bone nearby left thigh found tumors. just found out few days ago, is stage 4. how?

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