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Liver Cancer

Health information topics about Liver Cancer:

Children

    1. Childhood Liver Cancer (PDQ): Treatment
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/childliver/patient/

Clinical Trials

    1. ClinicalTrials.gov: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
    National Institutes of Health
    http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D006528&recruiting...

    2. ClinicalTrials.gov: Hepatoblastoma
    National Institutes of Health
    http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D018197&recruiting...

    3. ClinicalTrials.gov: Liver Neoplasms
    National Institutes of Health
    http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D008113&recruiting...

Diagnosis/Symptoms

    1. Ultrasound: Abdomen
    American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
    http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/ultrasound-abdomen.htm

    2. Liver Biopsy
    National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
    http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/liverbiopsy/index.htm

    3. How Is Liver Cancer Found?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_3x_how_is_liver_cancer_fo...

    4. ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatograp
    National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
    http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ercp/

    5. After the Tests: Staging
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_3x_after_the_tests_stagin...

Dictionaries/Glossaries

    1. Cancer.gov Dictionary
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Disease Management

    1. What Happens After Treatment of Liver Cancer?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_5x_what_happens_after_tre...

Genetics

    1. Metastasis Gene May Be Useful for Diagnosis and Tr
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2003/nci-16.htm

National Institutes of Health

    1. Adult Primary Liver Cancer (PDQ): Treatment
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/adult-primary-liver/patient/...

    2. What You Need to Know about Liver Cancer
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/wyntk/liver

Organizations

    1. National Cancer Institute

    http://www.cancer.gov/

    2. American Cancer Society

    http://www.cancer.org/

Overviews

    1. What Is Liver Cancer?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_1x_what_is_liver_cancer_2...

    2. Liver Cancer
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00399

Prevention/Screening

    1. Liver Panel
    American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/liver_panel/glance.htm...

    2. Hepatocellular Cancer (PDQ): Screening
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/screening/hepatocellular/patient/

    3. Can Liver Cancer Be Prevented?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_2x_can_liver_cancer_be_pr...

    4. ALT (Alanine Aminotransferase) Test
    American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/alt/test.html

Related Issues

    1. What Causes Liver Cancer?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_2x_what_causes_liver_canc...

    2. What Should You Ask Your Doctor about Liver Cancer
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_5x_what_should_you_ask_yo...

Research

    1. What's New in Liver Cancer Research?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_7x_whats_new_in_liver_can...

    2. Chemoembolization May Help Some Patients with Inop
    National Cancer Institute
    http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/chemoembolization0602

Statistics

    1. How Many People Get Liver Cancer?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_1x_how_many_people_get_li...

Treatment

    1. Cryosurgery in Cancer Treatment: Questions and Ans
    National Cancer Institute
    http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/7_34.htm

    2. How Is Liver Cancer Treated?
    American Cancer Society
    http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_2_4x_how_is_liver_cancer_tr...

    3. Liver Resection Procedure
    slp 3D
    http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=155

    4. Liver Resection with Implantation of Infusion Pump
    slp 3D
    http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=117

    5. Treatments: Chemoembolization, Tumor Ablation, and
    Society of Interventional Radiology
    http://www.sirweb.org/patPub/cancerTreatments.shtml

    6. Treating Cancer with RFA
    Society of Interventional Radiology
    http://www.sirweb.org/patPub/rfa-cancer.shtml

    7. Radiofrequency Ablation and Laparoscopic Liver Res
    slp 3D
    http://www.or-live.com/distributors/NLM/rnh.cfm?id=107

    8. Radiofrequency Ablation
    National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
    http://www.cc.nih.gov/drd/rfa/frame-patient.html


 

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