Dr. Esteban Kosak 
Liver Cancer mostly affects people with previous long-term liver diseases like liver cirrhosis, although up to one-quarter of patients do not have any predisposing condition or risk factor for it.
Liver cancer frequency has increased in the developed world throughout the last few decades. Although it is not the most frequent form of cancer, it causes an important percentage of cancer deaths worldwide.
Anyone could get liver cancer. Still, many risk factors drastically increase the chance of suffering from the disease. The most important risk factors include things like chronic viral hepatitis due to Hepatitis C virus or Hepatitis B virus, alcoholic or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and liver cirrhosis.
The survival rate of liver cancer decreases in advanced cases. The five-year survival rate in patients with an early diagnosis is about 30%. Nevertheless, in patients with a late diagnosis or progressive metastasis disease, the five-year survival rate drops below 3%. Unfortunately, most diagnoses occur in the advanced stages of the disease, when therapeutic options are limited.
One of the reasons most cases are diagnosed in the late stages is that the liver can work at 30% of its capacity before any symptoms occur. By the time the patient begins having symptoms, the liver is already approximately 70% destroyed.
Liver cancer symptoms are not specific for liver cancer. They are broad liver disease symptoms that can also be present in many other illnesses. These diseases also affect the liver, including hepatitis, biliary disease, and liver cirrhosis due to alcoholism or any other cause.
The most common liver cancer symptoms include weight loss, jaundice, bruising and bleeding, enlarged liver, enlarged spleen, fluid buildup in the abdomen, itching, dark urine, white stools, loss of appetite, and pain in the abdominal right upper quadrant.
The early diagnosis of liver cancer increases therapeutic options such as surgical removal, thus increasing survival chances. Therefore is critical to make an early and accurate diagnosis of the disease.
The tool is a Liver Cancer Symptoms Checker. It gathers the most important signs, symptoms, and risk factors for the disease.
Doctors rely on several diagnostic criteria for liver cancer. They must perform a complete body examination, blood, and imaging tests to confirm the diagnosis. Liver cancer symptoms are very unspecific. Therefore, having symptoms doesn’t necessarily mean you have cancer.
However, the tool here has questions that aim to identify the most important signs, symptoms, and risk factors for liver cancer. Consequently, the tool will tell anybody who uses it the likelihood of their symptoms because of this disease. Or, it would also tell people if they are at a higher risk of having liver cancer.
Diagnosing Liver Cancer is the first step for beginning its treatment. Keep in mind that having an earlier treatment equals a better prognosis or possible outcomes.
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Do you are a male over 54 years? Or a female over 60 years old?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hepatitis C infection?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hepatitis B infection?
- Yes
- No
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Do you use drugs and share contaminated needles?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have obesity? (please search in google the “BMI formula,” and with your weight and height, it will calculate that diagnosis)
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with diabetes (high blood sugar)?
- Yes
- No
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Do you drink on average six alcoholic drinks per day? (Click yes if this has been happening for at least ten years cumulatively)
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hemochromatosis?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, Porphyria cutanea tarda, Wilson disease, or a Glycogen storage disease?
- Yes
- No
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Have you used, or are you still using anabolic steroids nowadays?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have yellowing of the eyes or skin?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been losing weight unintentionally?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have skin itchiness without an obvious explanation?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have abdominal distention?
- Yes
- No
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Do you vomit blood, or are your stools dark as petroleum or darker than usual?
- Yes
- No
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