liver and gallbladder disorders
Metastatic Liver Cancer
Symptoms of Metastatic Liver Cancer
Often, the first symptoms are vague. They include weight loss, poor appetite, and sometimes fever. Typically, the liver is enlarged and hard. It may feel tender and often lumpy. Occasionally, the spleen is enlarged. At first, unless the cancer is blocking the bile ducts, the person has mild or no Jaundice in Adults (a yellowish discoloration of the skin and the whites of the eyes). Later, the abdomen may become swollen (distended) with fluid (a condition called In the weeks before death, jaundice progressively worsens. People may become confused and drowsy as toxins accumulate in the brain because the liver is too damaged to remove them from the blood. This condition is called Hepatic Encephalopathy . Sometimes the discovery of metastatic liver cancer is the first indication of cancer elsewhere in the body. 