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Liver: Cancers
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The liver continuously filters blood that circulates through the body, converting nutrients and drugs absorbed from the digestive tract into ready-to-use chemicals. The liver performs many other important functions, such as removing toxins and other chemical waste products from the blood and readying them for excretion. Because all the blood in the body must pass through it, the liver is unusually accessible to cancer cells traveling in the bloodstream.
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Primary liver cancers occur if the cells originate in the liver. This is a relatively rare occurrence. More often, cancerous cells from other body parts invade the organ through metastasis, resulting in metastatic liver cancer.
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Cirrhosis: In this condition, damage to the liver causes scarring which further prevents the liver from functioning the way it should. Common causes of cirrhosis include alcoholism and hepatitis. About 5% of cirrhosis patients develop liver cancer and end up receiving liver transplants due to excessivescarring.
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Cancer that has spread from other areas in the body to the liver usually originated in the lung, breast, colon, pancreas, and stomach. Leukemia and other blood cancers sometimes ... spread to the liver.
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The liver is a digestive organ necessary for life. Besides helping produce bile for digestion, it produces clotting factors for the blood, essential proteins, regulates cholesterol and detoxifies drugs and poisons. The liver is very resilient, but when it develops cancer can fail quickly, leading to rapid demise of the patient.
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Various neoplasms can involve the liver. Primary neoplasms are usually hepatocellular (hepatoma, hepatic carcinoma), bile duct carcinoma, or multicentric lymphosarcoma. Metastatic liver cancer usually arises from mammary gland adenocarcinoma, splenic hemangiosarcoma or pancreatic carcinoma.
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