Dr. Anjana Pillai says treatment depends on stage and health, with surgery, transplant, local therapy or systemic drugs to help people live longer. Dr. Anjana Pillai explains, in an interview with ...
Liver cancer, primarily hepatocellular carcinoma, originates in the liver, with hepatitis B and C as major risk factors. Diagnosis involves physical exams, blood tests, imaging, and possibly biopsy to ...
Liver cancer symptoms tend to develop gradually, often staying quiet until the disease has already progressed. Early on, signs like unexplained weight loss, abdominal discomfort, and fatigue can be ...
Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...
Immunotherapy-based combinations have rapidly become the dominant first-line treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but real-world outcomes remain heavily constrained by liver function ...
Do you sometimes feel constantly tired, no matter how much rest you get? Or experience a lingering, mild pain on the upper right side of your abdomen? You may even notice a faint yellow tinge in your ...
The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...
A diagnosis of serious liver disease can feel like a slow countdown. Scar tissue builds quietly, the liver stiffens, and the ...
When dentist Dr Loo Yie Jin was told that his pancreatic cancer had spread to his liver, the news was devastating. He had already undergone surgery and ...
A woman with cancer that spread to her liver is getting a second chance at life after receiving an organ transplant from a living donor.
Stage 4 liver cancer, also known as metastatic liver cancer, is the most advanced stage of liver cancer where the cancer has ...
“Large-scale efforts need to be made" in the fight against these cancers, said paper author Dr. Ju Dong Yang.