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LIVER CANCER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort
Synonyms:
cancer of the liver; liver cancer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("liver cancer" is a kind of...):
liver disease (a disease affecting the liver)
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
Context examples:
Secondary liver cancer is cancer that spreads to the liver from another part of the body.
(Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)
A type of radiation therapy used to treat liver cancer that is advanced or has come back.
(Intra-arterial brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)
A radioactive substance being studied in the treatment of liver cancer.
(iodine I 131 ethiodized oil, NCI Dictionary)
A drug that is used to treat certain types of muscle spasms and is being studied in the treatment of liver cancer.
(Baclofen, NCI Dictionary)
A drug used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a type of liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.
(BAY 43-9006, NCI Dictionary)
Cumulative incidence of liver cancer in the group treated with aspirin therapy was significantly lower than that in the untreated group in five years.
(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Liver cancer never originated from these cells.
(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)
The condition can progress to a more serious disease involving inflammation, scarring and even liver cancer (called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH).
(High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Causes Lasting Harmful Effects on Liver, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The findings have implications for understanding the mechanisms that lead to liver cancer and for therapeutic approaches to treat them.
(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)
Although patients who are infected with hepatitis C virus may not have symptoms, long-term infection may lead to cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and liver cancer.
(hepatitis C virus, NCI Dictionary)
