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Primary liver cancer (cancer that starts in the liver) affects about 3,100 people each year in the UK. It is important not to confuse cancers that start in the liver with cancers that spread to the liver after starting elsewhere in the body.
Liver damage (known as cirrhosis) increases the chances of developing liver cancer. Cirrhosis can be caused by infections like hepatitis B or C, or by drinking too much alcohol. Also people with diabetes have a higher risk of developing liver cancer.
Cancer Research UK is funding research to find out more about the causes of liver cancer, and to improve its treatment. Scientists are also working on a test to detect liver cancer earlier in people at high risk of the disease.
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Latest Liver cancer news from Cancer Research UK
- News story: Genetically engineered virus extends the lives of terminally-ill liver cancer patients
11 February 2013 - News story: One in six worldwide cancers down to 'largely preventable or treatable' infection
9 May 2012 - News story: New insight into how alcohol is linked to breast and liver cancers
16 September 2011 - Press Release: Less booze not more veg is key to cut cancer risk
1 December 2010 - News story: NICE rules against liver cancer drug sorafenib
19 November 2009 - Press Release: Liver cancer cases treble in 30 years
20 August 2009 - News story: Number of Britons diagnosed with alcohol-related cancers exceeds Wimbledon's Centre Court
1 July 2009 - News story: Scientists confirm that gene suppresses liver tumours
6 June 2008 - News story: Tattoos could help deliver cancer vaccines
13 February 2008 - News story: First steps towards targeted liver cancer therapy
13 July 2007
- News story: Cholesterol-regulating molecule linked to liver cancer
23 July 2012 - Press Release: NHS faces huge cancer challenge as cases set to jump by 45 per cent
28 October 2011 - Press Release: Booze causes at least 13,000 cancers a year in the UK
8 April 2011 - News story: Drinking culture blamed for 'appalling' rise in alcohol-related cancers
8 December 2009 - News story: IARC finds more cancers linked to tobacco and alcohol
4 November 2009 - Press Release: Discovery of 'marker' molecule offers hope for liver cancer test
6 August 2009 - News story: Scientists use new approach to hunt down cancer-causing genes
18 November 2008 - News story: Faulty liver 'stem cells' might cause 40 per cent of liver cancers
13 February 2008 - News story: New test improves detection of liver cancer
10 August 2007 - News story: Protein sheds light on higher liver cancer rates in men
9 July 2007
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