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Symptoms

Initial causes of the liver cancer were changeable. In some countries where in the liver
cancer becomes widespread disease, cancer is usually discovered at the advance stages
because of these several reasons;

1st, the area they live in has a higher frequency of the disease due to their access into the
health care providers are limited. 2nd, the area has no available screening exams for the
patients that are risky in developing the disease. 3rd, patients from this area has been
actually more violent liver cancers diseases.

Abdominal pain - it is the most usual symptom of liver cancer and mainly indicates a huge
tumor or an extensive involvement by the liver.

Weight loss - this is a warning sign of the liver cancer for those patients who has cirrhosis.
_hysical examination - liver is usually tender or enlarged. Cancers of the liver were very
vascular tumors. Therefore, the increasing amount of blood supplied in the hepatic artery
can cause chaotic blood flows within the artery. The chaos can result into distinctive sound
into the liver known as the hepatic bruit, and it could be via stethoscope.

It is seldom for this disease to show jaundice as soon as the tumor overcomes gradually to
the bile duct. Jaundice happens to this condition due sloughing tumor in the bile duct along
with the bleeding that is clotting into the bile duct that causes blocking of the duct.

In an advanced cancer of the liver, tumor may spread up locally to the nearby tissues,
throughout the blood vessels and to any part of the body (known as the distant metastasis).

With regards to this distant metastasis, the cancer can frequently spread into the lungs,
most likely through the blood steams. Commonly, patients are not showing metastases
symptoms from the lungs that are diagnosed through x-ray studies. Hardly ever, in the
extremely advanced cases, cancers may spread into the bones or even brains.
Hepatitis B Virus- the role of HBV infection for giving causes of liver cancers was very
much established, various lines of support is pointing with this tough association. Incidence
of the cancer relays o the rate of recurrence of the chronic hepatitis B viral infection.
Furthermore, patients positive to hepatitis B virus are at higher risk for acquiring liver
cancers.

Hepatitis C Virus - patients with this condition have higher risk factor in developing the
disease. It includes with the presence of liver cirrhosis, male genders, old age, and
infections of hepatitis B virus.

Alcohol - liver cirrhosis that is caused by frequent alcohol consumption was the most usual
connection of the liver cancers that has developed worldwide.

Aflatoxin B1 - the most powerful known chemical for the liver cancer formation. It is
produced by the mold Aspergillus Flavus that are found from the foods that had been
stored to the hot and moist environments. The molds are usually, found in peanuts,
soybeans, wheat, corn and rice.

Cirrhosis - person that has liver cirrhosis are at the higher risk in developing the cancer of
the liver.