Heart is one of the vital organs in the body that plays a major role in one's survival. The most important function of the cancer is delivering vitamins and nutrients throughout the body, producing proteins that will clean the blood, and remove toxins from the body.
There are two types of potentially cancer-heart attack:
Primary Cancer
Cancer cells first formed in the liver and then spread and damage other organs. This type of cancer most often affects people is hepatocellular carcinoma.
Metastasized cancer
Cancer that attacks the liver is derived from cancer cells that form in other organs. He attacks the liver because the liver is the principle of filtering the blood of toxins and viruses. Organs as the place to grow cancer cells including: colon, pancreas, stomach and chest.
B. Patient
People who are diagnosed with liver cancer aged over sixty years. From a survey in Canada, every year approximately 1800 people diagnosed with liver cancer, and over half were men.
C. Causes of liver cancer
Causes of liver cancer as yet known with certainty. However, liver cancers can be recognized from the factors that could diidentifikas, a disease that has or is being inflicted. Includes:
Chronic Hepatitis B
Infected with hepatitis C
Cirrhosis of liver
Diabetes mellitus
Infected toxins, such as mold aflatoxin, vinyl chloride, anabolic steroids, and arsenic
Of smoking
D. Symptoms and complications in patients with liver cancer
Knowing the symptoms of liver cancer as well as the conduct of trial error. Symptoms often show sometimes does not show a person suffering from liver cancer. Some things that are considered to indicate a person to liver cancer are as follows:
Ascites: A condition in which liver had accumulated fluid that interfere with the overall performance of the liver and metabolism.
Jaundice: a yellow skin and eyes become white whole
Fever
Shiver
Feeling tired extraordinary
Nausea
Abdominal pain
Loss of desire to eat
Weight loss is down dramatically
Pain in the back and shoulders
Dark-colored urine
There is bleeding inside the body
To ensure that a person suffering from liver cancer, needed care by a physician. Several tests can be done is:
Blood tests to check the content of enzymes in the liver
Abdominal ultrasound to determine the size of the liver and is there a tumor in it
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen
Laparoscopy
Biopsy
Angiography
Chest x-rays to determine the spread of cancer cells
E. Categories of liver cancer
Localized resectable
Cancer is only at one point in the liver and not potentially spread. Can be removed.
Localized unresctable
Cancer cells are still in one part of the liver, can not be removed.
Advanced
Cancer cells have spread in the liver and most likely also affect other organs in the body.
Recurrent
Cancer re-occur despite treatment.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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