Articles for tag: Liver Cancer

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Liver Cancer: Signs, Symptoms and Treatment

The liver, the largest organ inside the body, is the multipurpose factory of the body. It breaks down and stores nutrients from the intestines, manufactures agents that clots blood on wounds, secretes bile that absorbs nutrients, and removes toxins and waste from the body. Tumors develop from abnormal cell growth in liver tissues. These tumors ...

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Liver Cancer Symptoms: The Silent Killer

A very close friend of mine was diagnosed with liver cancer in 1994. He had hepatitis c which eventually does turn into liver cancer after 20 years, and these are the symptoms he experienced, along with some known facts. He had a feeling of being full all the time, looking very bloated in the abdomen ...

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Nexavar – Treatment for Liver Cancer

Largest internal organ in the human body is the liver, and situated in the upper abdomen, on the right side of the body. Various vital functions are performed by this organ: Makes some of the clotting factors needed to stop bleeding from injury or cut, processes and stores many of the nutrients absorbed from the ...

Three Ways to Prevent Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer – and one of the cancers with the worst prognosis. Sadly, most people diagnosed with cancer of the liver survive less than a year. Even more disturbing is the fact that this cancer is on the rise in the United States – which has some health experts ...

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Non-Evasive Treatment Developed that Destroys Liver Cancer

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University have collaborated in a project that has resulted in a new and non-evasive treatment to destroy liver cancer. First the cancer cells are treated with carbon nanotubes, then radio waves are used to heat up the nanotubes. And only the cancer is destroyed, ...