About Liver Cancer

Liver cancer happens when normal cells in the liver change into abnormal cells and grow out of control. The liver is a big organ in the upper right side of the belly.

Most people who get liver cancer have long-term liver disease (also called chronic liver disease). Having long-term liver disease increases a person’s chances of getting liver cancer. The most common and most serious form of long-term liver disease is a condition called “cirrhosis,” which scars the liver.

Clinical Presentation

Liver cancer does not usually cause any symptoms of its own. A few patients might have a lump or mild pain in the upper belly, feel full early on when they try to eat, or lose weight.

Others might have symptoms that are caused by the liver disease they had before they got cancer. Those symptoms can get worse or come back because of the cancer. They include:

  • Swelling of the belly or legs
  • The skin or white part of the eyes turning yellow

If you have these symptoms, tell a doctor or nurse.

Diagnosis

If a doctor suspects a patient has liver cancer, he or she will do one or more of the following tests:

  • Blood tests
  • An MRI scan, CT scan, ultrasound, or other imaging test – Imaging tests create pictures of the inside of the body and can show abnormal growths.
  • Biopsy – For this test, a doctor will remove a small sample of tissue from the liver. Another doctor will look at the sample under a microscope to see if it has cancer.

Treatments

Liver cancer can be treated in different ways. Treatment depends on the stage of the cancer. It also depends on how healthy the liver is (in other words, how serious the liver disease was before cancer developed). The different treatments include:

  • Surgery – Liver cancer can sometimes be treated with surgery to remove the part of the liver with the cancer.
  • Liver transplant – A liver transplant is a type of surgery in which a doctor replaces a diseased liver with a healthy liver from another person.
  • Ablation therapy – Ablation therapy is a procedure that can kill cancer cells in the liver. It does not involve surgery. Doctors can do ablation therapy in different ways. They can kill the cancer cells using heat, a laser, radiation therapy, or by injecting a special alcohol directly into the cancer.
  • Blocking the cancer’s blood supply – Doctors can do a procedure called “embolization” to block off the blood vessel that sends blood to the cancer. This keeps the cancer from growing by “starving” it of its blood supply. Sometimes, the embolization procedure is combined with chemotherapy (“chemoembolization”) or radiation (“radioembolization”).
  • Chemotherapy – Chemotherapy is the medical term for medicines that kill cancer cells or stop them from growing.
  • Immunotherapy – This is the term doctors use for medicines that work with the body’s infection-fighting system (the “immune system”) to stop cancer growth.

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Immunotherapy

The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to improve the body’s natural ability to find and destroy cancer cells. Successful immunotherapeutic approaches stimulate the natural defenses of the immune system and provide new ways to attack cancer. This is possible with comprehensive interventions that include cell therapy / immuno-pharmacological therapy in combination with nutritional, endocrine measures and supplements.

Dendritic enhancer or T-cell modulators

T-cell Modulators are peptide chains composed of tens of amino acids that appear to store all the experience of the immune system. The great intellectual leap to understand is that T-cell Modulators do not transfer antibodies nor create them directly, but its function is to educate, and teach the immune cells to recognize specific antigens that could happen to them unnoticed i.e. Liver malignant cells.

T-cell Modulators do not cure anything but work to make a “smarter” immune system so that it is the body itself eliminating disease. They are therefore vital in developing the strategies of the immune system against cancer.
T-cell Modulators contains several immunoactive components that have been shown to act synergistically in raising Dendritic and NK function and also effective as adjuvant therapy in cancer treatments, elevating dendritic and NK function as much as 250%

Hyperthermia

Hyperthermia involves the use of heat to directly treat a tumor or increase the vulnerability of cancer cells to other forms of treatment, such as immunotherapy, vitamin C, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Selenium

Selenium is a naturally occurring element with both nutritional and toxicological properties. Higher selenium exposure and selenium supplements have been suggested to protect against several types of cancer.

Researcher have found that there’s a direct relation between higher levels of selenium and liver cancer incidence, furthermore lower levels are associated with higher mortality

SAMe

Methionine is an essential amino acid that is metabolized mainly by the liver where it is converted to S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe). SAMe is mainly needed for methylation of a large variety of substrates (DNA, proteins, lipids and many other small molecules, so if the concentration of SAMe falls below a certain level the normal function of the liver will be also affected. Therefore, maintaining SAMe homeostasis may be a therapeutic target in liver cancer.

Omega 3 FA

Researchers have examined the effect of DHA and EPA in human hepatoceullar cancer cells, a common type of liver cancer. After treating the cellsthey found an inhibition of cell growth dose-dependently associated with EPA and DHA. They believe that the effect observed in this study was due to apoptosis, or programmed self-destruction, of the cancer cells. In addition, DHA and EPA indirectly reduced levels of the protein beta-catenin, which, when elevated, has been linked to the development of some tumors.

A second experiment looked at the effect of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in cholangiocarcinoma cells, which is an aggressive form of liver cancer, and discovered a similar ability of omega-3 fatty acids to inhibit cell growth and lower beta-catenin.

L-Carnitine

Carnitine is an amino acid that is synthesized in the liver and kidneys or obtained from dietary sources, particularly meat and dairy products.
Research shows that: (1) carnitine deficiency is a risk factor and should be viewed as a mechanism hepatic carcinogenesis; (2) oxidative stress plays an important role but is not the main cause of hepatic carcinogenesis; and (3) long-term L-carnitine supplementation prevents the development of liver cancer. Furthermore, carnitine supplementation alone or in combination with other natural chemopreventive compounds could be used to prevent, slow or reverse the occurrence of liver cancer.”

Personalized nutrition

A typical diet, characterized by dependence on animal products, refined carbohydrates and unhealthy fats such as processed vegetable oils, can promote an inflammatory environment in the body. A pro-inflammatory diet has been associated with an increased risk of Prostate cancer and an increased risk of death from Prostate cancer.

We custom-make a diet targeted to enhance the immune system’s ability to heal and provide our patients with the right nutrition for their current and long-term needs.

Vitamin D

Patients with higher vitamin D levels were significantly less likely to die from the disease (Mondul 2016). In another study, short-term supplementation with high-dose vitamin D for three to eight weeks lowered PSA levels (Wagner 2013).

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