Important Information To Know About Liver Cancer

Cancer Stages

The staging of liver cancer is based on how much the disease has spread both within the liver as well as if it has invaded other parts of the patient's body. Liver cancer has the potential of spreading to the individual's lungs, bones, and lymph nodes. If liver cancer does happen to spread to any of these parts, and a new tumor affects another area of the body, it does not take on a new name (e.g. liver cancer that has spread to the lungs is not called lung cancer) and it is not referred to as two separate types of cancer, because the abnormal cells are the same cancerous ones found in the liver. Instead, it is called metastatic liver cancer and treated in a similar way, though often with more aggressive approaches.

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