Liver Cancer Research Paper

Bruno Menezes

Dr.Agapito

Hepatocellular carcinoma/Liver Cancer

Abstract

The type of cancer in which i chose to work on is Hepatocellular carcinoma a common type of liver cancer. Liver cancer is a very serious disease just like any other type of cancer. For some years now it has been getting more dangerous as more people are affected by this cancer. It is the most common type of Cancer that comes from the liver and as well as number six on the world ranking for malignancies, as well being the third leading cause to death based on cancer. Having survival chances from 6 to 20mo. This is very concerning as cancer rates have gone down while liver cancer rates have gone up. Depending on how many risks there are for the patient, he may require

With numbers only rising in scales it is only right that a solution to this problem is found. As there may be already treatments for this type of cancer, the cancer might reappear after treatment, just as it happens with other cancers too. Procedures/Treatments for this disease include transplant, live donor liver transplant, chemotherapy, radio-frequency, chemoembolization, ethanol injection and more. These procedures all come with risks which are taken into consideration. The peer review goes more into detail on the chances of survival and the factors and many other substances which may be confusing. All the while the cancer may reappear even after surgery as stated before, by then doctors would probably have the patient do a resection, which is a process in which part of the liver that is contaminated by the tumor/cancer is removed. Patients could opt for a resection as their first option but if their liver is fully damaged they need a transplant. The liver transplant will probably take some waiting as the number of cases increase while the number of donors isn't that much. In case transplant fails patients would have to go through a resection. A

He states that ever since 1980 the number of people with HCC has only gone up and it contributes to a lot of death(WJH,2658/2659). The authors also believe that those who undergo transplant have high chances of survival as well as receive good guidelines to follow from the MC. He also believes with changes such as chemotherapy and immunosuppression there is a lot of promise for “curing” HCC. I believe in what the author says as well. Since this article was from 2015 there may as well be new methods to treat HCC. This article serves as an explanation for how HCC is doing and has been doing, a view from the early 2000’s until now. With HCC being the 3rd leading Cancer cause to death it has become one of the top priority for doctors all around, and research for new methods to combat HCC. This article servers as a starting point for those who want to combat this disease. I also agree with the fact that in the future many new possibilities for curing this disease exist. Im sure thats thats what those people from 37 years ago thought. Now there is a solution for HCC but, we want more so there is plenty of ways a patient can get treated, so that there may be more survival