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Why are liver cancer survival rates low?

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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.

Dr Hoepfner and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/11/2019

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