Understanding Metastatic Liver Cancer: Causes & Risk Factors

Liver cancer can be referred to as carcinoma or hepatoma. It has two forms, metastatic and heptocellular. Metastatic carcinoma of the liver is considered to be a secondary form of liver cancer, while heptocellular is a primary.

Family History

• If you have a family history of heptocellular or metastatic carcinoma of the liver, you are at risk of developing this disease. This also includes hepatoma.

Hepatitis C

• Hepatitis C is linked to causing metastatic carcinoma of the liver. Patients with this type of infection whose alpha-fetoprotein levels were raised or who were male are likely to develop this cancer.

Alcohol Abuse

• Alcohol abuse that resulted in cirrhosis has caused metastatic carcinoma of the liver. Cirrhosis causes irreversible scarring of your liver.

Aflatoxin

• Aflatoxin, a mold found within foods that include peanuts and wheat stored at high temperatures, has caused this form of cancer.

Heptocellular Carcinoma

• Heptocellular carcinoma and other forms of cancer have caused metastatic carcinoma of the liver. In these cases, the original form of cancer spread before treatment.