Definition of Liver Cancer

Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is a cancer arising from the liver. He is also known as primary liver cancer or hepatoma. Heart formed from cell types are different (for example, bile ducts, blood vessels, and fat storage cells). However, liver cells (hepatocytes) form up to 80% of the liver tissue. Thus, the majority of primary liver cancers (over 90 to 95%) arises from liver cells and is called hepatocellular cancer (hepatocellular cancer) or carcinoma (carcinoma).

When patients or physicians-doter speak of liver cancer, however, they are often referring to cancer that has spread to the liver, which has been derived from other organs (such as the colon / large intestine, stomach, pancreas, breast, and lung) . More specifically, this type of liver cancer is called a disease (cancer) of the liver metastatic or secondary liver cancer. Thus, the term liver cancer actually can refer to metastatic liver cancer or hepatocellular cancer. The subject of this article is hepatocellular carcinoma, which I will refer to as liver cancer.