Question 1

why are liver cancer survival rates low?

Accepted Answer

Late detection and: Related pathology.  Primary liver cancer often arises in patients with cirrhosis and is not detected early enough for a curative resection.  There are no effective chemotherapy or radiation treatment.  Most liver cancers are metastatic lesions from other cancers which by definition are incurable.

Question 2

what are the mortality rates for liver cancer?

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10-70%, depends: According to acs:  patients with small  tumors (tumors that can be surgically removed) and do not have cirrhosis or other serious health problems do well. Their overall 5-year survival is > 50%. For people with early-stage liver cancers who are able to have a liver transplant, the 5-year survival rate is in the range of 60% -70%.  Overall, for all liver cancer only 10% --5 year survival.

Question 3

what is the survival rate for liver cancer?

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Liver cancer : It really depends on the extent of liver involvement . If the disease involved one live love that can be successfully and completely resected then survival chances improve. For some patients a liver transplant may be the answer. As for most cancers survival depends on a complete resection with negative margins.

Question 4

what are the risk in second stage of liver cancer? is it dangerous stage ? what are the survival rate of a person in second stage of livet cancer?

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Question 5

my father has an inoperable liver cancer. after 5 months under chemo, he's about to do radioembolisation. in term of survival, does it worth it?

Accepted Answer

Ask his Oncologist: The choices of treatment for liver cancer are quite limited. So you should utilize any treatment recommendation if it has the potential to help prolong his life. Chemoembolization or Radioembolization is certainly a potentially useful treatment in many such patients.

Question 6

what can i do if my mom has stage 4 liver cancer shes 72 years old. she start treatment next week.what is the survival rate?

Accepted Answer

Difficult to say: If this is liver cancer and not another cancer that has spread to the liver, it is not operable at this point which would be the only way to cure the disease. Liver transplants have been used in this case but again not in stage IV cancer. The survival rate will depend on how well the patient responds to the therapy. Some of the new drugs have improved survival significantly.

Question 7

what is liver cancer?

Accepted Answer

HCC: There are many types of cancers that can develop in or spread to the liver.  The most common type is hepatocellular carcinoma and it is usually the type referred to when someone talks about "liver cancer".

Question 8

is liver cancer painful?

Accepted Answer

Not usually: Liver cancer is usually not painful. The condition that leads to liver cancer (chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis) can cause vague pain in the right upper quadrant of the belly.  Most liver cancer is picked up in asymptomatic patients by lab tests or by scans. Occasionally a patient will have painless yellowing of the skin due to liver cancer.

Question 9

symptoms of liver cancer?

Accepted Answer

Varies : Most of the time there will be no symptoms until cancer becomes big enough to cause problems. U may turn yellow along w really dark urine, fatigue, swollen abdomen, legs etc....

Question 10

is liver cancer hereditary?

Accepted Answer

It can be: Many factors can increase one's risk for primary liver cancer including: chronic infection with hepatitis b or c virus, type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, heavy alcohol use, obesity, exposure to certain toxins, and inherited liver diseases that can lead to cirrhosis such as hemochromatosis, wilson's disease, tyrosinemia, Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, glycogen, and porphyria.

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