LIVER CANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liver cancer mean? 

• LIVER CANCER (noun)
  The noun LIVER CANCER has 1 sense:

1. malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort

  Familiarity information: LIVER CANCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVER CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cancer of the liver; liver cancer

Hypernyms ("liver cancer" is a kind of...):

liver disease (a disease affecting the liver)

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

 Context examples 

Although many patients who are infected with HBV may not have symptoms, long-term infection may lead to cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and liver cancer.

(HBV, NCI Dictionary)

Children with hemihypertrophy have an increased risk of developing certain types of cancer, including Wilms tumor (a childhood kidney cancer) and liver cancer.

(Hemihypertrophy, NCI Dictionary)

Chronic HBV can lead to scarring of the liver, liver failure, or liver cancer.

(Hepatitis B, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Antineoplastic vaccine being developed against liver cancer.

(GV-1301, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemoembolization is used to treat liver cancer.

(Chemoembolization, NCI Dictionary)

It may also increase the risk of liver cancer.

(Biliary cirrhosis, NCI Dictionary)

It is performed to block the blood supply to liver cancer.

(Bland Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)

The infection can last a lifetime and may lead to scarring of the liver or liver cancer.

(Hepatitis C, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A substance being studied in the treatment of liver cancer.

(Indium In 111 DOTA Monoclonal Antibody HuAFP31, NCI Dictionary)

Primary liver cancer starts in the liver.

(Liver Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)