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Liver cancer (also called hepatocellular cancer, or HCC) is also called primary liver cancer. This type of cancer is often associated with cirrhosis, infection with the hepatitis B or C viruses, and haemochromatosis (too much iron in the liver). Liver cancer is rare in the UK. Follow the links below to find BootsWebMD's comprehensive coverage about how liver cancer is contracted, what it looks like, how to treat it and much more.

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The medicines regulator says it won't approve an expensive liver cancer treatment

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Liver cancer drug “too costly”

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Thumbnail: Liver transplant - 'The operation changed my whole life'

For Gordon, now 59, is now the UK's longest surviving liver transplant patient and one of the world's top ten longest living liver transplant recipients.It started with a minor injury during a football match. A tiny lump appeared on my leg and it ached when I walked. I was keen on sport, so I went to my GP, says Gordon.After an operation to remove it, Gordon started having blackouts and hallucinations. One theory was that his liver had not filtered out the anaesthetic. Before he could return to work his GP recommended a precautionary visit to King's College Hospital in London, for further tests.At King's they did about 20 to 30 tests. I wondered what I was doing there, I felt fine. Then the consultant told me what I had - a tumour on my liver.The tumour was removed, but tests revealed a second one, which was inoperable. The specialists suggested a liver transplant.I was shocked. I hadn't come down from the ceiling with the news of the second tumour. I knew kidney

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