A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

(WNDU) - Over 800,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer every year worldwide, and it accounts for more than 700,000 cancer deaths each year. Traditional treatment involves surgery, radiation ...

A diagnosis of cancer is bad enough, but news that it has spread to the liver has always been cataclysmic. Few people survive for five years once cancer is detected in the liver, most living on ...

Over 800,000 people are diagnosed with liver cancer every year worldwide, and it accounts for more than 700,000 cancer deaths annually. Traditional treatment involves surgery, radiation therapy, ...

A high-energy form of ultrasound imaging produces pictures of liver tumors that are better than those made with traditional ultrasound, according to results of a clinical study. The study suggests ...

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound and FibroScan could potentially be used to measure and monitor any changes in the liver in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, ...

The week after Carlton Harris underwent a novel therapy at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center to destroy three cancerous liver tumors, he was back at the gym huffing, puffing, lifting and sweating.

Patients with cirrhosis develop dilated veins around the food pipe and stomach. These veins push (shunt) the blood away from the liver and the blood goes to the heart without purification in the liver ...