HOW CAN TRANSPLANT HELP
WHAT IS LIVER CANCER? Liver disease is the increase and spread of unhealthy cells in the liver. Cancer that begins in the liver is called initial liver cancer. Cancer that flows to the liver from another organ is called metastatic liver cancer. HOW CAN TRANSPLANT HELP? Liver transplantation can be a probability for those liver cancer patients whose tumors cannot be surgically separated. With this method, a liver that has been damaged with cancer can be replaced with a healthy donor liver. However, liver transplantation is not easy as there are very few numbers of liver donations. AT WHAT STAGE CAN LIVER BE TRANSPLANTED? Usually, there is a collection of rules to decided who is the best possible candidate for a successful liver transplant called Milan criteria to which doctors adhere. According to the criteria, the liver needs to: · Have only one tumor of 5 cm or less. If there are multiple tumors the largest must be 3 cm or less. · Have