It means tumor of the liver (not necessarily cancer).
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.
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In the United States, about five persons in every 200,000 will develop a hepatoma (70% to 75% of cases of primary liver cancers are HCC).
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In Africa and Asia, over 40 persons in 200,000 will develop hepatoma (more than 90% of cases of primary liver are HCC).
Hepatoma is accented on the third syllable. A simple way of testing which syllable is accented is by saying the word aloud. Look for the syllable that you naturally emphasise more in your speech.
Liver abscess is the medical term. Hepatoma is a liver tumor.
Hepatoma is a malignant tumor of the liver and it can be cured if it is caught in time. A person can undergo radiation or chemotherapy and have surgery to remove the tumor.