Liver Secondaries/Metastatic Liver Cancer
What is Liver Metastases?
Liver secondaries or metastatic liver cancer or liver metastases is a medical condition that occurs when cancerous cells spread (metastasized) to the liver from any other part of the body. As such, these tumors may develop either:
• right after the development of the original tumor, or
• months or several years later
Metastatic liver cancer cells are made up of the same types of cancerous cells as the primary organ cancer.
What Are The Common Cancers Which Causes Liver Metastases?
The risk of spread of cancer to the liver depends on the primary cancer and the stage of cancer at diagnosis. Some primary cancers are more likely to spread to the liver, and are listed as follows:
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There are several factors which your doctor will consider in treating liver metastases, and is usually done by a multi-disciplinary team including a liver surgeon, and medical oncologist. The choice of treatment may depend on patient’s health condition, type of primary cancer, and size, location and number of metastatic liver tumours.
Systemic Therapies: This is used to treat the patient’s entire body all through their bloodstream. The therapy includes procedures such as:
• Chemotherapy: In this treatment, drugs are used to kill the cancerous cells.
• Targeted Therapy: The method uses drugs along with other agents (including monoclonal antibodies). These antibodies attach to specific parts of the cancerous cells to enable treatment targeting with radiation, drugs, or by obstructing the growth of cancerous cells.
• Immunotherapy: This treatment makes use of certain vaccines, antibodies, and growth factors to restore or boost the patient’s immune system to effectively fight against cancer.
• Hormonal Therapy: In this procedure, a doctor removes, adds, or blocks hormones to stop or slow down the growth of
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Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of normal, healthy liver tissue by fibrotic scar tissue, blocking the flow of blood through the organ and preventing it from working as it should, as well as regenerative nodules leading to progressive loss of liver function. The liver, the largest organ in the body, is vital in keeping the body functioning properly. It removes or neutralizes poisons from the blood, produces immune agents to control infection, and removes germs and bacteria from the blood. It
* Chemotherapy: Using special medicines or drugs to shrink or kill the cancer, Drugs include pills or IV. (Maybe both)
Liver cancers are malignant tumours that grow inside or on the surface of the liver. They form from the liver or structures inside the liver, for example, blood
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(McCoy) 6. Subtopic five: Liver Cancer a. Quote to support sub-topic #1: Liver cancer is the growth of cancer cells in the liver, which is located in the right side of the abdomen. (LaRusso-c) b. Quote to support sub-topic #2: Liver cancer can cause symptoms which include: dark urine, confusion and increased sleepiness, weakness, loss of appetite, yellowing of the skin, unexplained weight loss and more. (LaRusso-c) c. Quote to support sub-topic #3: The treatment received for Liver cancer depends on the stage of cancer the doctor determines.
Histopathological examination of an ultrasound-guided biopsy confirmed liver metastasis from a melanoma .Fig 3. Additional mutation
Cancer is a disease in which cells multiply out of control and gradually build a mass of tissue called a tumor. There has been a large amount of research dedicated to the treatment and cure of cancer. Several types of treatments have been developed. The following are just some of the major examples of cancer therapy: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, biologic therapy, biorhythms, unconventional treatments, and hyperthermia. Each type of treatment is discussed in detail below.
Liver cancer is complicated to detect at early stage due to the number of symptoms .Several types of risk factor like obesity, cirrhosis, smoking, hepatitis B and hepatitis C or alcoholism are very highly linked to the liver cancer. The medical term that is
First, What is cancer? Cancer is a medical term for the unnatural cells. These cells grow faster than the normal ones, and at the same time, it kills other normal cells that are located in the same area. Liver Cancer has two types: Noncancerous and Metastasize. So as we mentioned, the Noncancerous such as Hepatic adenoma, Focal Nodular Hyperplasia and Leiomyoma. These are called benign tumors, which means that they do not turn into cancer. These benign tumors do not need to be removed by surgical intervention, except if it starts causing pain, bleeding, or physical disorder. On the other hand, there is the Primary Liver Cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) that starts flowing in the patient's liver by a lot of reasons. But the most common ones
The first treatment option is surgery. There are many different ways of getting the surgery. The first way is called Lobectomy. What they would do is cut 1 of the 5 lobes to get rid of the tumor. The 2nd option is called a wedge resection. They do this if you can't have one of your lobes removed. They just remove the tumor and not a whole lobe. The 3rd option is segmentectomy. This is another option if you can't have a lobe be removed. The fourth and last surgery option is called Pneumonectomy. If the tumor is in the middle of the lung, you can get the whole lung removed.
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Chemotherapy, Radiation therapy, stem cell transplant, and targeted drug therapy are all forms of treatment for ALL. Chemotherapy is typically used as induction therapy for kids and adults. Chemotherapy can also be used in consolidation and maintenance therapies. Chemotherapy is given in a variety of ways. It can be given orally as a pill or liquid. It can be given intravenously by infusion into a vein. A cream on the skin can be given. Chemotherapy can also be given by direct placement either via lumbar puncture or a device placed just under the scalp. Radiation therapy uses high-powered beams, such as x-rays, to kill the cancer cells. Radiation therapy is usually recommended when the cancer has spread to the central nervous
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