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Liver Cancer Research Paper

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Liver Cancer
When a specialist for any disease wants to know about particular disorder they have to know about the whole disease like diagnosis , symptoms, and the proportion of people who are susceptible to effects of this disease .Liver cancer like any disease has many characteristics .Knowing the stages help the doctor to decide what kind of treatment is best and may help to predict a patients prognosis which is the chance of recovery.
This essay will identify the main stages of development of liver cancer and some possible treatment options of each stage .The early phase contains two stages of development of liver cancer which are stage number one and two. First stage, depends on tumor ,and its expansion. there is single tumor and has not spread to blood vessels and lymph nodes .Likewise, stage number two is single tumor and has not spread to any organs. these stages can be treats …show more content…

In this stage the doctors usually treat with injection of ethanol into the tumor to reduce the speed of the tumor and destroy its cells. Stage 3B is more complicated than stage 3A because the tumor has grown into the major vessels of the liver in the portal vein and hepatic vein ,but this stage do not extend to lymph nodes .Stage 3C the tumors has grown into the outer layer of liver which is visceral peritoneum and also spread to outer layer of other organ forexample, gallbladder. In this type they treats with surgical called parital hepatectomy , which means remove the part that injured of the organ

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