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Liver Cancer |
Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, also called hepatoma) is a primary malignancy (cancer) of the liver. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either hepatitis infection (usually hepatitis B or C) or cirrhosis (alcoholism being the most common cause of hepatic cirrhosis). In countries where hepatitis is not endemic, most malignant cancers in the liver are not primary HCC but metastasis (spread) of cancer from elsewhere in the body, e.g. the colon. Treatment options of HCC and prognosis are dependen ...
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Liver Cancer Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/
- Society of Interventional Radiology http://www.sirweb.org/
- National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center http://www.cc.nih.gov/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
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