Liver Cancer is most common cancers, Primary liver cancer when cancer occurs in the cells of the liver. Metastatic liver cancer is that when cancer from other organs like as colon, lung and breast spreads to liver.
This cancer that first develops in any more part of the body spreads to the liver.
Type of cells affected on primary liver cancer
Hepatoblastoma – This the rare type of liver cancer which max affecting young children.
Hepatocellular – Hepatocytes is where carcinoma starts in the liver cells.
Cholangiocarcinoma – This kind start in the bile ducts.
Hemangiosarcoma – It’s also a rare cancer arising from the liver blood vessels.
Here discuss with Metastatic liver cancer which spreads to the liver from the:
- Breast
- Stomach
- Lung
- Intestine
- Uterus
- Pancreas
Here are the Stages of Liver Cancer:
The stages of the liver cancer are divided on the basis of metastasis. There are different rules to define different stages, according to the symptoms and level of metastasis.
First Stage (Liver Cancer): The particular major tumor (any size) has not grown into any blood vessels. The cancer has not extended to nearby lymph nodes or distant sites.
Second Stage (Liver Cancer): A particular major tumor (any size) has grown into the blood vessels, or several small tumors are present, all less than five centimeters (two inches) in diameter. The cancer has not extended to nearby lymph nodes or distant sites.
Third Stage (Liver Cancer): Numerous tumors have been found, and there at least one is tumor larger than five centimeters. The cancer has not increase to nearby lymph nodes or distant sites.
Then the tumor is growing into a branch of the entry vein or the hepatic vein. The liver cancer has not increase to nearby lymph nodes or distant sites.
Then again the tumor grows into a nearby organ (gallbladder), or the tumor has grown into the external covering of the liver. The cancer has not increase to nearby lymph nodes or distant sites.
Forth Stage (Liver Cancer): The Liver cancer has increased to nearby lymph nodes and possibly will have grown into nearby blood vessels or organs. In advanced part does not repeatedly metastasize (distant organs)