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The root word of hepatoma is hepa which means liver. Hepatoma or Hepatocellular Carcinoma is the cancer of the liver.
Between 30% and 70% of hepatoma patients also have cirrhosis.
Hepatoma
Liver tumor (not necessarily cancerous).
It is estimated that a patient with cirrhosis has 40 times the chance of developing a hepatoma than a person with a healthy liver.