Coverage Problems and Symptoms of Liver Cancer

Coverage Issues Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world. A deadly cancer, liver cancer will kill almost all patients who suffer from it within a year. In 1990, the World Health Organization estimates that there are approximately 430,000 new cases of liver cancer worldwide, and a similar number of patients who died as a result of this disease. Approximately three-quarters of the cases of liver cancer are found in Southeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan). Liver cancer is also very common in sub-Saharan Africa (Mozambique and South Africa).

The frequency of liver cancer in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa is greater than 20 cases per 100,000 population. In contrast, the frequency of liver cancer in North America and Western Europe is much lower, less than five per 100,000 population. However, the frequency of liver cancer among Alaska Natives were comparable to those to be found in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, recent data show that the frequency of liver cancer in the United States as a whole increases. This increase was due primarily to chronic hepatitis C, a liver infection that causes liver cancer.

Symptoms of Liver Cancer:

• Quickly tired.
• Body feels weak.
• Often shivering in the night.
• Fever in the morning.
• Weight dropped drastically.
• Often feel pain in the back and shoulders.
• Sometimes coughing or vomiting blood.
• The entire skin becomes yellow.
• distended abdomen.
• Upper abdominal pain.
• Black stools.
• swollen feet.

Hepotema liver cancer or a malignancy of the liver, both primary and secondary. Primary liver cancer means that the cancer cells begin to grow out of the liver cells themselves which in turn could spread and damage other organs. While in secondary liver cancer caused by the spread of cancer from elsewhere, for example from gastrointestinal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and so on.