Liver Cancer

Cancer found in the liver is most often a secondary cancer, with a primary cancer located elsewhere in the body (most commonly the large bowel). Symptoms don’t often appear until late stages of disease. These can include jaundice, ascities (abdominal swelling), an enlarged liver, nausea and vomiting, weight loss and abdominal pain.

Surgical Treatment - Liver Resection

Surgery can remove (resect) the area of affected liver. Depending on which part or segment of the liver that is affected surgery may be able to be performed using a laparoscopic technique.

Surgical Treatment – Laparoscopic or Percutaneous Radio Frequency Ablation

On occasions, instead of removing the diseased part of the liver, radio frequency (RF) ablation can be used to burn the tumour insitu to destroy the tumour cells.

Chemotherapy may be used before surgical resection or RF ablation (to reduce tumour size) or after to ensure complete eradication of disease.

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Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
Pancreatic cancer
Spleen
Liver Cancer
Gall Bladder and Bile Duct Cancer

Consultants who undertake HPB surgery include:

Mr Ameet Patel www.londonhpb.co.uk
Mr Satvinder Mudan mudan@aol.com

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