Types of Liver cancer

Curable Types of Liver cancer:

• Hepatic adenoma
• Hamartoma
• Hepatoma
• Hepatic hemangiomas

Rare Types of Liver cancer:

• Cholangiocarcinoma
• Mixed tumours of the liver
• Tumours of mesenchymal tissue
• Sarcoma of liver
• Hepatoblastoma in children
• Infantile hemangioendothelialoma

Types discussion:

What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI (Excerpt)

Cancer that begins in the liver is called primary liver cancer. In the United States, this type of cancer is uncommon. However, it is common for cancer to spread to the liver from the colon, lungs, breasts, or other parts of the body. When this happens, the disease is not liver cancer. The cancer in the liver is a secondary cancer. It is named for the organ or the tissue in which it began. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI)

What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI (Excerpt)

Most primary liver cancers begin in hepatocytes (liver cells). This type of cancer is called hepatocellular carcinoma or malignant hepatoma .

Children may develop childhood hepatocellular carcinoma or hepatoblastoma . (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI)

What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI (Excerpt)

When liver cancer spreads (metastasizes ) outside the liver, the cancer cells tend to spread to nearby lymph nodes and to the bones and lungs. When this happens, the new tumor has the same kind of abnormal cells as the primary tumor in the liver. For example, if liver cancer spreads to the bones, the cancer cells in the bones are actually liver cancer cells. The disease is metastatic liver cancer, not bone cancer. It is treated as liver cancer, not bone cancer. Doctors sometimes call the new tumor "distant" disease.

Similarly, cancer that spreads to the liver from another part of the body is different from primary liver cancer. The cancer cells in the liver are like the cells in the original tumor. When cancer cells spread to the liver from another organ (such as the colon, lung, or breast), doctors may call the tumor in the liver a secondary tumor. In the United States, secondary tumors in the liver are far more common than primary tumors. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI)

What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI (Excerpt)

If liver cancer is diagnosed, the doctor needs to know the stage, or extent, of the disease to plan the best treatment. Staging is an attempt to find out the size of the tumor, whether the disease has spread, and if so, to what parts of the body. Careful staging shows whether the tumor can be removed with surgery . This is very important because most liver cancers cannot be removed with surgery.

The doctor may determine the stage of liver cancer at the time of diagnosis, or the patient may need more tests. These tests may include imaging tests, such as a CT scan, MRI, angiogram, or ultrasound. Imaging tests can help the doctor find out whether the liver cancer has spread. The doctor also may use a laparoscope to look directly at the liver and nearby organs. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Liver Cancer: NCI)

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Liver cancer: Related Disease Topics

More general medical disease topics related to Liver cancer include:

• Cancer
• Liver conditions
• Chronic liver disease
• Abdominal Cancer

Research More About Liver cancer

• Liver cancer: Introduction
• Symptoms: Liver cancer
• Complications: Liver cancer
• Causes: Liver cancer
• Treatments: Liver cancer
• Deaths: Liver cancer

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