www.liver.org.uk | LSCA - Liver Cancer Surgery Appeal

LCSA - Liver Cancer Surgery Appeal

'For the care and potential cure of secondary liver cancer'.

The aim of this appeal is to raise money to invest in state of the art equipment for the NHS to perform liver surgery to the highest possible standards.

The liver is a site of secondary cancer for many patients who suffer with bowel cancer. Removing cancer for the liver by operation will significantly improve the chance of survival in at least a third of patients.

Other subsidiary aims include the setting up of a database to collect information on patients undergoing liver surgery for secondary cancer and to educate by distributing patient guides to treatment options through hospital clinics and general practice surgeries.

For the future we wish to research alternative methods for the destruction of liver tumours which are currently being treated by surgery with particular regard to the role of radio-frequency ablation.

Primary and Secondary Liver Cancer

Cancer is named after the organ where it is first diagnosed

Cancer that begins in the liver is called primary liver cancer.
It is uncommon in the UK.

It is common for cancer to spread from other parts of the body such as the colon, lungs and breasts to the liver. When this happens, the cancer in the liver is a secondary cancer and medically it is not called liver cancer.

Metastatic Cancer

Secondary liver cancer may spread (metastasize) beyond the liver to the bones. If this happens the cancer cells in the bones are liver cancer cells and the disease is metastatic liver cancer, not bone cancer.