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AMC, acclaimed for both clinical and research achievements and experience in liver cancer treatment, was selected to serve as Asias first Continent Liver Cancer Medical Education Center. Physicians and staffers dealing with liver cancer treatment from the Departments of General Internal Medicine, Surgery and Radiology invited liver cancer specialists from across Asia and held PATH (Program for the Advancement of Therapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma) to introduce AMCs advanced treatment systems and share ideas on better treatment options. The program was carried out in 8 sessions for 3 days, bringing together 20 liver disease experts from China, India and Thailand and training them on cutting-edge liver cancer treatment plans offered by AMC. For the duration of the program, international physicians took a tour around operating rooms and observed radiotherapy procedures carried out in the Angiography Room of the Department of Radiology. This designation of a PATH education center is the fourth worldwide and the first in Asia. It is expected to provide momentum for AMC to strengthen its presence and promote its superior medical technologies in the global market.

Liver cancer or hepatic cancer is a form of cancer with a large number of mortality rates. This can be classified into two types, primary and metastatic. Primary liver cancer starts from the liver while metastatic starts from other organ then metastasize to liver organ.

Cancer of the liver is the considered as sixth most common type of cancer in men and women are the eleventh most affected globally, it affects 250,000 to more than a million persons annually and is becoming more common in the US. It is 10 times more common in Africa and Asia where cancer of the liver is the most common type of cancer. Women are least affected than men, and just like any other forms of cancer, it is more common in older individuals.

These are the listed risk factors of hepatic cancer: Sex, Age (clients ages from 20 to 50 are the common person who suffers from liver cancer), infection with HCV or HBV which are already chronic, Cirrhosis, hereditary liver sickness, Diabetes, contact to aflatoxins, obesity and too much alcohol consumed.

Most clients don’t experience any symptoms or even signs in the early phase of liver cancer. If some symptoms arise, it may comprise of: eagerness to eat, pain in the upper abdomen, weight loss, vomiting, nausea, fatigue, inflamed liver, inflamed abdomen and jaundice; it is the yellow discoloration of skin and the whites of your eyes.

Tests and procedures used to diagnose liver cancer includes: Blood tests, testing of removed sample tissue and imaging testing.

this kind of cancer is difficult to control. It can be cured only when diagnosed at an early stage (before it has spread) and only if the patient is healthy enough to withstand the operation. Yet, sad to say, liver cancer is a silent disease and always to be found in a terminal stage. Most patients died one year after diagnosis and only about 5% cases live above 5 years.

Liver cancer is common in regions that are endemic for Hepatitis B and C . India and most of Asia are regions with a high incidence of this problem. Thus these regions contribute to the majority liver cancer patients in the world. Like most internal malignancies liver cancer is detected late since they hardly produce any symptoms in the early stage.