liver and gallbladder disorders
Metastatic Liver Cancer
Introduction
Metastatic liver cancer is a cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body. Weight loss and a poor appetite may be the first symptoms. Doctors base the diagnosis on results of blood tests and usually biopsy. Chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy may help relieve symptoms but do not cure the cancer. (See also Overview of Liver Tumors .) Metastatic liver cancer most commonly originates in the Overview of Lung Tumors , Cancers spread to the liver because the liver filters most of the blood from the rest of the body, and when cancer cells break away from a primary cancer, they often enter and travel through the bloodstream. Sometimes the discovery of metastatic liver cancer is the first indication that a person has cancer. 