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It’s called Hepatoblastoma…..

Childhood liver cancer, also called hepatoma, is a rare disease in which cancer (malignant) cells are found in the tissues of your child's liver. The liver is one of the largest organs in the body, filling the upper right side of the abdomen and protected by the rib cage. The liver has many functions. It plays an important role in changing food into energy and also filters and stores blood.

Primary liver cancer is different from cancer that has spread from another place in the body to the liver (liver metastases).

There are two types of cancer that start in the liver (hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular cancer), based on how the cancer cells look under a microscope. Hepatoblastoma is more common in young children before age 3 and may be caused by an abnormal gene. Children of families whose members carry a gene related to a certain kind of colon cancer may be more likely to develop hepatoblastoma (genes carry the hereditary information that you get from your parents). Children infected with hepatitis B or C (viral infections of the liver) are more likely than other children to get hepatocellular cancer. Immunization to prevent hepatitis B may decrease the chance of developing hepatocellular cancer. Hepatocellular cancer is found in children from birth to 19 years of age.

 

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