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What are my chances of having liver cancer as a result of having hemochromatosis?

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Dr. Marsha Davis answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Possible: Not sure of the percentage but there is a connrction.

Answered 12/17/2011

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Small: The risk is quite small, you are young and will need to have a number of phlebotomies to remove the excess iron. Keep up with that and that is the best you can do.

Answered 10/20/2012

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Are you compliant?: If you are getting phlebotomy and keeping your ferritin where it should be, your risk is low. If not, and you're iron-overloaded, you are setting yourself up for cancer. I can't give you the percentage odds and neither can anyone else even if they are very familiar with you. But they're high enough to want to avoid.

Answered 8/10/2014

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