LIVER CANCER

HOW COMMON IS LIVER CANCER?

• Liver cancer affects 1 in 81 men.
• It affects 1 in 196 women.
• More than 700,000 people are diagnosed with it each year

GROUPS LIKELY TO GET LIVER CANCER

• Men are more likely to get liver cancer than women.
• 95% of people who are affected by liver cancer are over the age of 45.
• The average age for liver cancer is 63 years old.

SYMPTOMS

• Weight loss
• Loss of appetite
• Nausea or vomiting
• An enlarged liver
• An enlarged spleen

SYMPTOMS(CONTINUED)

• Pain in the abdomen
• Itching
• Yellowing of skin and eyes
• Pain in right shoulder

RISK FACTORS

• Heavy consumption of alcohol
• Obesity
• Cirrhosis (disesase in where liver cells are damaged
• Using anabolic steroids
• Tobacco use

TREATMENTS

• Surgery
• Tumor Ablation-Removing the tumor without surgery
• Tumor Embolization-Injecting something to reduce blood flow into cancer cells
• Radiation and Targeted Therapy
• Chemotherapy

NEW RESEARCH ON LIVER CANCER

• Prevention-Research on a vaccine preventing hepatitis C
• New blood tests are being researched in order to find liver cancer i Its early stages
• Targeted Therapy-New drugs that are specifically target excact parts of cancer cell are being developed
• Chemotherapy-More affective forms of chemotherapy are being devloped
• Virus Therapy-A newer treatment that uses a virus that mainly affects cancer cells

INTERESTING FACTS

• The survival rate of liver cancer is 15%
• Since the mid-1970s in the UK, mortality rated have increased more than 3-fold
• There are many different stages in liver cancer, and the more it develops, the deadlier it gets