What is the difference between liver cancer & cirrhosis of the liver? i have been diagnosed with primary biliary ciffhosis stage 4.

Cancer : Cancer is a uncontrolled growth of what once was normal tissue. Left untreated it can and will lead to death. Cirrhosis is a chronic degenerative disease in which normal liver cells are damaged and are then replaced by scar tissue and fat. This is irreversible and will lead to loss of liver function (liver failure). Some of the symptoms of severe cirrhosis include excessive bleeding, a build up of toxic body waste, coma and eventually death. There is also the possibility of developing liver cancer as a result of the cirrohsis.

Different problems: Cirrhosis is a complex scarring of the liver that results in disruption of both the liver cells, which must accomplish a large number of tasks, and the flow of the "rivers" in the liver that help accomplish that, by putting scars across them. The cells inside these inflamed and scarred areas are more prone to mutate and become cancerous, so that cirrhosis may lead to cancer of the liver.Good luck.