Liver Cancer: Know more about its symptoms, causes

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Liver disease is mostly genetic or due to lifestyle changes. More reasons about the damaged liver are, some sort of viruses, excessive alcohol use, and obesity.

This cancer is found anywhere in or around the liver. The liver is found on the top right side of your stomach which helps the human body to digest the food and moreover, flush out the toxins from the body.

A doctor explains that liver cancer can sometimes start either in your liver, the primary part of the organ or spread from another organ, that are the secondary organs apart from the liver. Another frequently asked question about this cancer is how serious liver cancer is? Expert replied, “The liver cancer depends on numerous features including where it is in the liver, how big it is, if it has spread, if it’s primary or secondary and your health”.

However, liver cancer may not show any symptoms sometimes, or sometimes they are visible but they might be hard to spot. On the parallel side, symptoms of the liver cancer in primary organs or spread’s from the secondary organs are the same also known as secondary liver cancer.

Symptoms of liver cancer can include:

  • Jaundice, in which your skin colour turns into pale yellow, and the darker pee.
  • Tireless or have no energy to do work
  • You start feeling itchiness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Nausea
  • A lump in the right side of stomach
  • Weight loss without any workout

When your digestion gets affected then you witness the below mentioned symptoms:

  • Above 60 years and most common in over 85 years of age
  • Mostly found in man than the women
  • Feel sick
  • Abdominal pain
  • You tummy feels full
  • Swollen tummy
  • Medical conditions, such as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, gallstones, diabetes, a parasite in the liver (liver flukes), and HIV
  • Genetic factors suffered from primary liver cancer

 

“Secondary liver cancer is caused by cancer cells from a cancer somewhere else in the body spreading to the liver. Many liver cancers are also linked to your lifestyle” experts added further.

 

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