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	Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By Howard J. Worman, M. Hepatocellular carcinoma is cancer that arises from hepatocytes, the major cell type of the liver.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma is relatively rare in the United States.
		Blood alpha-fetoprotein is a useful marker for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /dept/gi/carcinoma.html (391 words)

	Nikon MicroscopyU: Human Pathology Digital Image Gallery - Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hepatocellular Carcinoma at 10x Magnification - Approximately 3 to 5 percent of the population with cirrhosis of the liver is diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma each year, and about 80 percent of all people with hepatocellular carcinoma are cirrhotic.
		Hepatocellular Carcinoma at 20x Magnification - Although the specific link between hepatitis viruses and liver cancer is not yet fully understood, some scientists have suggested that viral infection interferes with signal transduction and disrupts the controlled growth of cells.
		Hepatocellular Carcinoma at 10x Magnification - Hepatocellular carcinoma patients that are considered poorly suited for surgery may elect to undergo any of several other treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, percutaneous ethanol injection, transplantation, and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization of the liver.
	www.microscopyu.com /galleries/pathology/hepatocellularcarcinoma.html (513 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of the liver.
		Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma can be difficult as most of the patients who develop this tumor have no symptoms other than those related to their longstanding liver disease.
		The diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma is typically made by liver imaging tests such as abdominal ultrasound, helical CT scan or triple phase CT scan in combination with measurement of blood levels of alpha-fetoprotein.
	www.hcvadvocate.org /hcsp/articles/rellosa.html (904 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hepatocellular carcinoma and dysplastic nodules in patients with cirrhosis: prospective diagnosis with MR.
		Detection of hepatocellular carcinomas and dysplastic nodules in cirrhotic livers: accuracy of helical CT in transplant patients.
		Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and orthotopic liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
	www.natap.org /2004/HCV/121504_01.htm (6361 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Children's Hospital Boston
		Hepatocellular carcinoma is a rare disease in which cancerous cells are found in the tissues of the liver.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma may arise in livers which have an underlying abnormality including children with a prior history of biliary atresia and such metabolic abnormalities as tyrosinemia, galactosemia, familial cholestatic cirrhosis, giant cell hepatitis of infancy, Fanconi's anemia, glycogen storage disease, and anti-trypsin deficiency.
		Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma is generally aimed at resecting (removing) as much of the tumor as possible while maintaining adequate liver function.
	www.childrenshospital.org /az/Site1015/printerfriendlypageS1015P0.html (1410 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Unfortunately, serum AFP levels are normal in 40 percent of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma of less than 2 cm in diameter and in 28 percent of those with tumors 2 to 5 cm in diameter.
		Achievement of this result is contingent upon a short waiting time between the diagnosis of the hepatocellular cancer and the actual performance of the transplant, and, as a result, the listing criteria for liver transplantation have been modified to give priority to patients with known or suspected hepatocellular carcinoma.
		Chemotherapy has not been used routinely for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma; however, there are ongoing studies using single agents and combination chemotherapy.
	www.hcvadvocate.org /Medical_Writers_Circle/rellosa.htm (919 words)

	CRYOSURGERY AS A TREATMENT FOR ADVANCED STAGE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is of particular importance to patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, because the majority of these patients have cirrhosis and compromised liver functions.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most malignant forms of cancer.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma: importance of histologic classification as a prognostic factor.
	www.cryoforum.org /Liver/wongsped.html (6128 words)

	Prevention of (HBV) Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hepatocellular carcinoma develops within a four-year period in almost all eastern woodchuck pups exposed to woodchuck HBV at birth.
		Case-control study on hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma: the role of HCV genotypes and the synergism with hepatitis B virus and alcohol.
		Universal hepatitis B vaccination in Taiwan and the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in children.
	www.natap.org /2004/HBV/100804_02.htm (1391 words)

	Postgraduate Medicine: Hepatocellular carcinoma
		In the United States, the incidence of histologically proved hepatocellular carcinoma increased from 1.4/100,000 population in the period from 1976 to 1980 to 2.4/100,000 population in the period from 1991 to 1995 (9).
		Hepatocellular carcinoma should be considered in any patient with chronic liver disease whose clinical status indicates sudden decompensation.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma is seen most commonly in the second--the hepatic arterial--phase, because the lesions are often hypervascular (figure 2: not shown).
	www.postgradmed.com /issues/2000/05_00/ulmer.htm (2494 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The name of the biomarker indicator is squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA)-immunoglobulin M (IgM), and may be helpful to detect liver cancer because of the relatively reduced ability of current biomarkers to detect this type of cancer, wrote Giorgio Fassina, PhD, of Xeptagen S.p.A. Life Biotechnology in Pozzuoli, Italy and his colleagues.
		The many various causes "for the vast majority of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, alcohol abuse, and the poor prognosis for patients with primary HCC, require the development of adequate screening programs for patients at risk, including chronic carriers of HBV and HCV," Fassina and his fellow researchers wrote.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma occurs frequently in patients with chronic liver disease who are listed for liver transplants.
	www.bluefaery.org /hcc (2054 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world.
		Prognosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma is determined by the tumor stage and by the functional status of the liver.
		Primary symptoms of hepatocellular carcinoma are those of a hepatic mass.
	mama.indstate.edu /users/stuart/rdna/HCCp21.html (612 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Hepatocellular carcinoma - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Hepatocellular carcinoma: A type of adenocarcinoma, the most common type of liver tumor.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma: relatively uncommon malignant hepatic tumor; usually arises in cirrhotic liver; predominately affects males.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma: Another name for Hepatoma (or close medical condition association).
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/hepatocellular_carcinoma.htm (407 words)

	Hepatocelular Carcinoma - Genetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A p53 genetic polymorphism as a modulator of hepatocellular carcinoma risk in relation to chronic liver disease, familial tendency, and cigarette smoking in hepatitis B carriers.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma in children associated with Gardner syndrome or familial adenomatous polyposis.
		Chromosomal aberrations in human hepatocellular carcinomas associated with hepatitis C virus infection detected by comparative genomic hybridization.
	www.cancerindex.org /geneweb/X070601.htm (193 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Patient UK
		Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Patient UK PatientPlus articles are written for doctors and so the language can be technical.
		Simonetti RG et al; Hepatitis C virus infection as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis.
		Okuda K, Ohtsuki T, Obata H et al; Natural history of hepatocellular carcinoma and prognosis in relation to treatment: a study of 850 patients.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40002369 (1657 words)

	Radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and metastasis from colorectal carcinoma are the two most common malignant tumours to affect the liver.
		Metastatic liver disease is frequently associated with primary colorectal carcinoma.
		IPG 2 - Radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma - guidance
	www.nice.org.uk /page.aspx?o=IP_127 (433 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		National Cancer Institute, Hepatocellular Carcinoma is the 4th most common cancer in the world.
		It is also known as HCC, hepatoma, primary liver cell carcinoma, or primary liver cancer.
		Blue Faery's mission is to prevent, treat, and cure primary liver cancer, specifically Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), through research, education, and advocacy.
	www.bluefaery.org /cancer/hcc.shtml (321 words)

	The Continuing Increase in the Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States: An Update -- El-Serag et al. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		2-fold increase in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma
		The observed increase in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma
		Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Cirrhotic Liver: Gadolinium-enhanced 3D T1-weighted MR Imaging as a Stand-alone Sequence for Diagnosis
	www.annals.org /cgi/content/full/139/10/817 (3842 words)

	eMedicine - Hepatocellular Carcinoma : Article by Daniel R Jacobson, MD, MS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary hepatic tumor and one of the most common cancers worldwide.
		Peterson MS, Baron RL, Marsh JW Jr, et al: Pretransplantation surveillance for possible hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis: epidemiology and CT-based tumor detection rate in 430 cases with surgical pathologic correlation.
		Tang Y, Yamashita Y, Arakawa A: Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma arising in cirrhotic livers: comparison of gadolinium- and ferumoxides-enhanced MR imaging.
	www.emedicine.com /radio/topic332.htm (2969 words)

	Hepatocellular carcinoma
		Hepatocellular carcinoma involves a malignant tumor of the liver.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for 80% to 90% of all liver cancers.
		The usual outcome is poor, because only 10% to 20% of hepatocellular carcinomas can be removed completely using surgery.
	www.pennhealth.com /ency/article/000280.htm (450 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma / Hepatoma \| Childhood Liver Cancer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
		Hepatoma, also known as hepatocellular carcinoma or childhood liver cancer, is a very rare disease in which cancer cells develop in the tissues of the liver and form a tumor.
		Children with metabolic liver disease that causes liver scarring (such as tyrosinemia and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency) and those infected with hepatitis B or C (viral infections of the liver that cause inflammation) are more likely than other children to get hepatoma.
		Genes that are not normal that are passed down (inherited) are thought to play a role; however, it is not clear what causes the tumor to develop.
	www.cincinnatichildrens.org /svc/alpha/l/liver/diseases/hepatoma.htm (1236 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		If you are a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and are receiving care at a USC-affiliated medical care facility, you are eligible to participate in the USC Registry of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
		Clinical care of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is complex and requires integrated expertise in hepatology, oncology, radiology, and surgery (including transplantation).
		In 2001, Dr. Adrian DiBisceglie at Saint Louis University initiated "A National Registry of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma." As of August 2003, six centers had enrolled 107 patients with HCC, 94% of whom had underlying chronic liver disease, with hepatitis C diagnosed in more than half of the patients.
	www.usclivercancer.org /research.html (511 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma
		Hypervascular masses in the liver include hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), and hemangioma (though the enhancing pattern is not the characteristic type).
		Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common abdominal malignancy, representing 80-90% of primary liver malignancies around the world.
		Screening the cirrhotic liver for hepatocellular carcinoma with CT and MR imaging: opportunities and pitfalls.
	brighamrad.harvard.edu /Cases/bwh/hcache/335/full.html (714 words)

	Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Liver cancer causes more than 500,000 deaths a year worldwide, and about 90% of primary malignant tumors of the liver are hepatocellular carcinoma.
		Hepatocellular carcinoma may also be the result of alcohol induced cirrhosis or Hepatitis C. HCC often appears 30 - 40 years of chronic infection by HBV.
		Activating mechanism of transcriptor NF-kappaB regulated by hepatitis B virus X protein in hepatocellular carcinoma
	www.stanford.edu /group/virus/hepadna/2004tansilvis/cancer.htm (368 words)

	Liver Cancer — Complete medical information associated with this form of cancer on MedicineNet.com
		Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is a cancer arising from the liver.
		Thus, the majority of primary liver cancers (over 90 to 95%) arises from liver cells and is called hepatocellular cancer or carcinoma.
		The subject of this article is hepatocellular carcinoma, which I will refer to as liver cancer.
	www.medicinenet.com /liver_cancer/article.htm (2219 words)

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