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Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It filters harmful substances from the blood, digests fats from food and stores the sugar that your body uses for energy. Primary liver cancer starts in the liver. Metastatic liver cancer starts somewhere else and spreads to your liver.
Risk factors for primary liver cancer include
Symptoms can include a lump or pain on the right side of your abdomen and yellowing of the skin. However, you may not have symptoms and the cancer may not be found until it is advanced. This makes it harder to treat. Treatment options include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or liver transplantation.
National Cancer Institute
Death - A Love Story - Official site for the film about death, liver cancer, transplant, physician/patient relations and spirituality. Synopsis, awards, reviews, director biography, and credits.
Flexsite Diagnostics,Inc. - Source of diagnostic products for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, liver disease, and specific types of cancer.
The Liver Cancer Network - General overview given by the Allegheny General Hospital in Pennsylvania.
CancerLinks.org: Liver Cancer - Presentation of collected links.
Cancer Group Institute: Liver Cancer - General information in an understandable fact sheet format.
Liver Cancer Care - Summary touching on treatment options from a hospital located in Celebration, Florida.
University of Chicago: Section of Gastroenterology - Facts and issues on liver cancer. Aimed at the lay and professional level.
Cancer.gov: Liver Cancer - Resource of the U.S. National Cancer Institute including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, support and clinical trials.
MEDLINEplus: Liver Cancer - Varied links about this condition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Imperial Cancer Research Fund: Liver Cancer - UK charity addresses prevention, diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Also provides details on fundraising.