Liver cancer
Primary liver cancer (cancer that starts in the liver) affects about 3,100 people each year in the UK. It is important not to confuse cancers that start in the liver with cancers that spread to the liver after starting elsewhere in the body.
Liver damage (known as cirrhosis) increases the chances of developing liver cancer. Cirrhosis can be caused by infections like hepatitis B or C, or by drinking too much alcohol. Also people with diabetes have a higher risk of developing liver cancer.
Cancer Research UK is funding research to find out more about the causes of liver cancer, and to improve its treatment. Scientists are also working on a test to detect liver cancer earlier in people at high risk of the disease.
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Browse news and press releases about Liver cancer
- Alcohol cancer risks "underestimated" say researchers
- Caution urged over mandarin liver cancer link
- Discovery of 'marker' molecule offers hope for liver cancer test
- First steps towards targeted liver cancer therapy
- Liquorice extract could be used in new liver cancer drugs
- NICE rules against liver cancer drug sorafenib
- Protein sheds light on higher liver cancer rates in men
- Scientists confirm that gene suppresses liver tumours
- Scientists use new approach to hunt down cancer-causing genes
- Tattoos could help deliver cancer vaccines
- Birmingham researchers use new approach to 'break the code' for liver cancer tests
- DNA changes in blood may provide early indication of liver cancer
- Faulty liver 'stem cells' might cause 40 per cent of liver cancers
- IARC finds more cancers linked to tobacco and alcohol
- Liver cancer cases treble in 30 years
- New test improves detection of liver cancer
- Research finds possible liver cancer genes
- Scientists hope for liver cancer blood test development
- Study reveals childhood liver cancer risk
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