Clinical Aspects of Primary Carcinoma of the Liver

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Primary cancer of the liver has been noted as an important problem in clinical oncology because of its rather high incidence, difficulty of early diagnosis and poor prognosis. The tumor is often associated with liver cirrhosis and the disease occurs mainly in aged males. For diagnosis, palpation of the enlarged, nodose liver, laboratory findings, laparoscopy, scintigraphy and hepatic artery angiography are still important and valuable methods but they are insufficient for detection of primary hepatic carcinoma in its early stages. Alpha-fetoprotein is very interesting in the detection and the study of primary hepatic cell carcinoma. The most frequently applied treatment is chemotherapy, and surgical intervention is possible only in rare cases since the tumor is usually recognized too late. However, remarkable remissions are sometimes observed.
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