What are the risk factors for liver cancer?
Liver cancer "is one of the cancers with a poor prognosis", says the League Against Cancer. 11,660 new cases were recorded in 2023 in France, and 76% concerned men. It should be noted that this disease occurs most of the time on a liver already weakened by alcoholic cirrhosis or viral hepatitis.
Alcohol is the main risk factor for liver cancer: it is the cause of 48% of new cases, according to the National Cancer Institute (INCa). Tobacco, hepatitis B and C, obesity and overweight, hemochromatosis, fatty liver disease and a sedentary lifestyle are also risk factors.
Here are the signs that may be suggestive of liver cancer
The discovery of liver cancer is often made as part of the follow-up of alcoholic cirrhosis or viral hepatitis. But when it affects a healthy person, it is asymptomatic in most cases, which often makes its diagnosis late. If it is a so-called "silent" cancer, manifestations can appear and vary according to the stage, says the Léon Bérard Cancer Center. Among them, we can find:
fatigue;
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