Liver cancer occurrence has been steadily increasing since the early 1980s in the U.S. Before 2010, the American Cancer Society estimated that 24,120 new cases and 18,910 deaths would occur in the U.S. during this year (2010). (1) Liver cancer is the fifth major cause of cancer related deaths in the U.S, it has the fastest growing death rate of all cancers in the country. (2)
Liver cancer currently carries a poor prognosis since most of the cases are not detected at early stages.
This cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women and the fifth in men and it has a higher incidence in Europe, Australia and the United States. (3)
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