A study looking at different scans to help understand liver cancer

This study looked at different types of MRI scans to find out more about liver cancer.

If your doctor thinks you may have liver cancer, there are several tests they can use to diagnose it. They usually use a combination of ultrasound scans, CT scans and MRI scans. They use these scans to work out where the cancer is and how big it is, and this helps them decide which treatment to use.

If they can’t be sure from the scans, then doctors can take a sample of tissue from the liver (a biopsy) and look at it under a microscope. But this can be uncomfortable, and there is a small risk of problems.