More Than 900,000 People Were Diagnosed With Liver Cancer in 2020 Some cases of HCC begin as a single tumor that continues to grow larger, and only late in the disease does it spread to other parts of the liver, according to the American Cancer Society.Ī second type appears to start as many small cancer nodules throughout the liver, which is most often seen in people with cirrhosis (chronic liver damage) and is the most common pattern in the United States. Each YearĬancer that starts in the liver is called primary liver cancer, with the most common type being hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). An Estimated 28,000 People Die of Liver Cancer in the U.S. “Preventing and managing liver cancer requires a global effort and good access to healthcare and treatment, which may be a challenge in many countries with high rates of liver cancer incidence,” he says. “Liver cancer remains a major health issue globally, and in some countries it is the first in new cancer cases and number of cancer deaths,” says Bassam Estfan, MD, a hematologist and oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, who was not involved in the study. “It is also largely preventable if control efforts are prioritized - major risk factors include hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, alcohol consumption, excess body weight, and metabolic conditions including type 2 diabetes.” “Liver cancer causes a huge burden of disease globally each year,” senior author Isabelle Soerjomataram, MD, PhD, deputy branch head of cancer surveillance for the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, said in a release.
To avoid this increase, countries need to lower the annual rate of liver cancer incidence and death by at least 3 percent, according to the findings, published on October 5 in the Journal of Hepatology. Primary liver cancer was among the top three causes of cancer death in 46 countries in 2020, and the number of people diagnosed with or dying from primary liver cancer per year could rise by more than 55 percent by 2040, according to a new global analysis.
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