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=__Liver Cancer__ = Liver Cancer: a cancer found in the Liver  About the liver:
 * Largest organ in the body
 * Shaped like a pyramid
 * can't live without it ( takes part in many roles that you need to live )
 * it breaks down and stores many of the nutrients absorbed from intestine
 * secretes bile into intestine
 * removes toxic wastes from the body

About Liver Cancer:
 * most of the time it doesn't start in the liver
 * there has been 18,160 deaths from it so far in 2009
 * it's a lot more common in men then women
 * smoking/alcohol abuse impacts it strongly
 * if you have diabetes, it can increase the risk
 * <span style="color: #b96ef2; font-family: Georgia,serif;">obesity also increases the risk

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<span style="color: #20c90d; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Symptoms Include.... <span style="color: #b96ef2; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #20c90d; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Weightloss 2. Lack of Appetite 3. Vomiting 4. Fever 5. Feeling full after small meal 6. Stomach pain

8. Yellowing of skin and eyes 7. Itching

<span style="color: #ed073a; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Preventions: <span style="color: #ed073a; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> This was really easy to understand OS
 * 1) <span style="color: #ed073a; font-family: Georgia,serif;">vaccine to prevent hepatitis B
 * 2) <span style="color: #ed073a; font-family: Georgia,serif;">limiting alcohol use
 * 3) <span style="color: #ed073a; font-family: Georgia,serif;">not using any tobacco products