Liver Cancer Research Paper

The third leading cause of death in united states is a medical mistakes, and there are many types of medical mistakes. For example, the stages of liver cancer and Tuberculosis are similar, so the doctors have to distinguish between symptoms of the diseases to get a correct diagnosis. Liver cancer is a dangerous and fatal disease due to the fact that the liver fulfills a lot of many fatal functions in the body. For example, the liver breaks down the component of blood to create nutrients that are available to use, the most important function, and the liver stores sugars to provide a body with energy.[1] Knowing the stages and developments is important for doctors to diagnose accurately. However, the developments of liver cancer involves

First stage 1, it is characterized by having only individual tumor, and the cancer cell has not grown into lymph nodes , blood vessels, and any part of the body.[2] Moreover, this stage is important because it has a good chance to be cured completely. Second stage 2 has two possibilities, there is a single tumor, and it grows into the blood vessels, or there are several tumors, but they have not spread to blood vessels.[2] However, the majority of patients do not have any observable symptoms in the early stages. Stage 1 and stage 2 do not affect the functions of

In the first group of stage 4, the tumors in the liver are any size, and there are more than one tumor, and the blood vessels may have a tumor or tumors, and the organs that are around the liver may have a tumor. Moreover, the cancer cell has grown into lymph nodes, but not to other location in the body.[3] In the second group of stage D, the tumors has reached to other parts of the body such as the lung and bones, and the liver has lost its function.[3] At the end of this stage, the patient will