Surgery is rarely indicated in these circumstances. Infrequently, benign liver tumors are diagnosed because of symptoms or complications, and require urgent management including surgery as a major ...

Liver biochemistry (usually normal in cases of benign, uncomplicated tumors), viral serologies, and tumor markers are useful for excluding liver disease or with atypical presentations. The ...

It is most often diagnosed in older people. Hepatoblastoma is a very rare type of primary liver cancer that usually affects young children. It's most often diagnosed in children under 2. Most growths ...

Cancer spreads through metastasis, but tumors do not always do so. Benign tumours do not spread to other parts of the body.

Tumors develop when cells in the body grow uncontrollably. Finding a tumor on your dog can be very frightening, but they are ...

Sometimes it can be hard to determine if a spot or spots on the liver are due to the spread of cancer or another (benign) cause. If there is uncertainty, your healthcare provider may recommend a liver ...

Immunotherapy is the use of medicines that help a person’s own immune system find and destroy cancer cells. It can be used to treat some people with liver cancer. An important part of the immune ...

Karen Kennerley / SWNS The colonoscopy revealed a tumor in her colon but she was told it was benign. It wasn’t until she underwent a procedure to remove it in May 2023 that a surgeon thought it ...

Primary liver cancer is cancer that started in the liver. This section is mainly about the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). If you have cancer that started in another ...

Symptoms that may indicate end stage liver cancer include increased fatigue, abdominal pain, and jaundice, which is the yellowing of the skin and mucus membranes. If a person is nearing the end of ...

NEWTON, Mass. — 25 Investigates has learned that a sixth staff member has been identified with a benign, non-cancerous brain tumor at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. 25 Investigates first reported last ...