Liver Cancer Treatment

DNA, present in our cells, directs every single chemical process in our body through constant instructions. Sometimes the DNA mutates, or its genetic code changes. This disrupts the normal instruction cycles. As a result, cells start growing randomly and uncontrollably, creating a condition called as tumor. Such abnormal cells are called cancerous cells. This is how cancer occurs in general. When the same phenomenon happens in the liver, with the liver cells, the condition is liver cancer.

One of the causes attributed to liver cancer is severe Hepatitis infection. However, with people who have not had a bout of hepatitis, what causes liver cancer is not clear.

Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, the most common being:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Feeling weak or fatigue
• Weight loss without exercise or diet changes
• Reducing or no appetite
• Pain in the upper abdomen
• Swelling in the abdomen area
• Skin and eyes become yellow, which is a sign of jaundice
• Stools that are white and chalky

If you are experiencing one or more of these, and consume alcohol frequently, or have suffered a bout of hepatitis recently, get yourself screened immediately for liver cancer.