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- Liver Cancer
- SYMPTOMS. Watch for a mass in the upper right quarter of the abdomen, weight
- loss, abdominal pain and possibly a later sign of jaundice (skin yellowing).
- CAUSES are unknown at this time. It is rare that the cancer originates in
- the liver in the United States. It is common for it to originate in the liver
- in the Orient and Africa. About half of the liver cancer cases in the United
- States are associated with cirrhosis of the liver. Cancer may spread to the
- liver from elsewhere in the body such as pancreas or breast.
- TREATMENT. Consult your doctor.