6 Things You Should Know About Liver Cancer
Risk factors for primary liver cancer
About 21,000 Americans are diagnosed with primary liver cancer each year. One of the few cancers on the rise in the United States, it’s about twice as common in men than in women. Risk factors include other liver diseases, mainly cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease…
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Giving a Voice to the LGBTQ+ Community
Meet Ryan Clary, Former Executive Director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable and longtime HIV and AIDS advocate who has dedicated his life to giving a voice to liver patients, specifically the LGBTQ community, by ...
Don’s Story
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ALF Patient Advocate Participates in Congressional Directed Medical Cancer Research Program
Press Release for Personal Use Re: Consumer Participation on Scientific Peer Review Panels For Immediate Press Release: SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEW OF CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS’ PEER REVIEWED CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ...
Barb’s Liver Cancer Story
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Barb's Liver Cancer Story" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference as told by Barb Pitts herself. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Bruce’s Liver Cancer Story
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Bruce's Liver Cancer Story" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference as told by Bruce Bower himself. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Don’s Liver Cancer Story
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Don's Liver Cancer Story" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference as told by Don Melillo himself. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Liver Cancer & Transplantation
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Liver Cancer & Transplantation" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Ali Zarrinpar. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Liver Cancer & the Underserved
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Liver Cancer & the Underserved" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Robert Wong. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Nutrition & the Liver
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Nutrition & the Liver" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Ed McDonald. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
COVID Vaccines & Liver Cancer
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "COVID Vaccines & Liver Cancer" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Bilaal Hameed. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Breakthroughs in Liver Cancer
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Breakthroughs Liver Cancer" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Richard Kalman. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Liver Cancer Clinical Trials
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Liver Cancer Clinical Trials" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Manisha Verma. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Treating Patients with Liver Cancer
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Treating Patients with Liver Cancer" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Ghassan Abou-Alfa. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Liver Cancer Screening & Surveillance
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Liver Cancer Screening & Surveillance" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Jennifer Guy. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
Liver Cancer 101
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Liver Cancer 101" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference presented by Dr. Tamar Taddei. Audience Liver Cancer Patients and Caregivers ...
2021 ALF Liver Cancer Conference
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Guy and Dr. Tamar Taddei featuring presentations by doctors Ghassan Abou-Alfa, Sheila Eswaran, Ali Zarrinpar, Manisha Verma, Richard Kalman, ...
Getting to Know Your Liver Cancer Multidisciplinary Medical Team
Program Description The American Liver Foundation presents "Getting to Know Your Liver Cancer Multidisciplinary Medical Team" as part of the 2021 Liver Cancer Conference facilitated by Dr. Sheila Eswaran featuring presentations by Nurse Alison O'Neill, ...
Amy’s Story
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Menchie’s Story
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Barb’s Story
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Lisa’s Story
Bile Duct Cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) Learn More about Bile Duct Cancer The word cholangiocarcinoma was not part of our vocabulary till 2010, along with words like tumor markers, bilirubin, liver panels, bile ducts and so many ...
Rare Liver Disease Month Focus: Rare Forms of Liver Cancer
Liver cancer is cancer that occurs in the liver. Primary liver cancer is cancer that begins in the cells of the liver. Secondary liver cancer develops when cancer cells from another part of the body ...
Pediatric Liver Disease and COVID-19
January 27, 2021 we hosted a panel of experts who answered questions about how COVID-19 is impacting children with liver disease and what you need to know. Participants had the opportunity to has panelists questions ...
Liver Cancer Surveillance During the Coronavirus Pandemic
ALF Patient Advocate Susan Ventura sat down with ALF National Medical Advisory Committee member Dr. Catherine Frenette, hepatologist at Scripps MD Anderson Center in San Diego to ask her our most frequently asked questions about ...
Liver Awareness Month: Cirrhosis
Let’s Stop the Progression of Liver Disease Did you have a chance to read our blog post about fibrosis and how liver disease is staged? If not, check it out here. As a reminder, fibrosis ...
Liver Awareness Month: Fibrosis
Let’s Stop the Progression of Liver Disease Last week, in our hepatitis blog post, we reviewed the role of inflammation in the liver and what happens when someone has liver disease and develops hepatitis. If ...
Liver Week 2020
Did you know there are over 100 types of liver diseases? As the American Liver Foundation, our mission is to promote education, advocacy, support services and research for the prevention, treatment and cure of liver ...
Facebook Live Presentation: End Stage Liver Disease
Click here to watch the recorded presentation (must be logged in to Facebook) Dr. Caroline Jouhourian, a gastroenterologist from St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, MA, will join our own Lindsay Ventura, Community Outreach and ...
Liver Cancer Awareness Month 2017
It’s October, and that means it’s Liver Cancer Awareness Month! For the fourth year in a row, the American Liver Foundation has partnered with Bayer Healthcare for a public awareness campaign. The efforts aim to ...
Liver Disease Statistics
According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime. 70.1 percent reported that ...
Q&A About Liver Cancer
The American Liver Foundation reached out to top doctors Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, and Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD., to get answers to the most commonly asked liver cancer questions ...
Are You at Risk for Liver Cancer?
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6 Things You Should Know About Liver Cancer
Liver cancer is the growth and spread of unhealthy cells in the liver. Cancer that starts in the liver is primary liver cancer. Cancer that spreads to the liver from another organ is metastatic liver cancer. Risk ...
Managing Liver Disease
July is Disease Management Month for the American Liver Foundation’s Get Fit program! Check out our fourth poster of the month: Managing Liver Disease ...
Managing Medications
July is Disease Management Month for the American Liver Foundation’s Get Fit program! Check out our second poster of the month: Managing Medications ...
What is Disease Management?
July is Disease Management Month for the American Liver Foundation’s Get Fit program! Check out our first poster of the month: What is Disease Management? ...
Managing Medications with Liver Disease
July is Disease Management Month for the American Liver Foundation’s Get Fit program! Check out our webinar of the month: Managing Medications with Liver Disease ...
Liver Cancer on the Rise
New Comprehensive Study Shows Overall Cancer Deaths Down, With Liver Cancer as the Concerning Exception Recently, the National Cancer Institute released its Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Alarmingly, the report ...
October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month: Are You at Risk?
Liver cancer strikes 33,000 Americans annually, according to the American Cancer Society and it is expected that 23,000 Americans will die as a result of liver cancer this year. The incidence of liver cancer has ...
Last Updated on April 20, 2020
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