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Tests For Liver Cancer

Tests for liver cancer include imaging tests like ultrasound, CT scans, MRI scans, and angiography to determine the size, location, and spread of tumors. Biopsies including needle biopsies, laparoscopic biopsies, and surgical biopsies may be used to diagnose liver cancer by removing tumor tissue for examination. Doctors also use blood tests like alpha-fetoprotein and liver function tests to help detect liver cancer.

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Tests For Liver Cancer

Tests for liver cancer include imaging tests like ultrasound, CT scans, MRI scans, and angiography to determine the size, location, and spread of tumors. Biopsies including needle biopsies, laparoscopic biopsies, and surgical biopsies may be used to diagnose liver cancer by removing tumor tissue for examination. Doctors also use blood tests like alpha-fetoprotein and liver function tests to help detect liver cancer.

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Tests for Liver Cancer

Medical history and physical


exam
Imaging tests
 Ultrasound
Ultrasound is often the first test used to look at the liver.

 Computed tomography (CT)


It can provide precise information about the size, shape, and position of any
tumors in the liver

 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)


Like CT scans, MRI scans provide detailed images of soft tissues in the body.

Sometimes they can tell a benign tumor from a malignant one.

It can help show if liver cancer has spread to other parts of the body.

 Angiography
Angiography can be used to show the arteries that supply blood to a liver
cancer.
Angiography may also be done with a CT scanner (CT angiography) or an
MRI scanner (MR angiography).

 Bone scan
It can help look for cancer that has spread (metastasized) to bones.

Doctors don't usually order this test for people with liver cancer unless you
have symptoms such as bone pain.

Other tests and procedures


 Laparoscopy
 Biopsy
I. Needle biopsy
II. Laparoscopic biopsy
III. Surgical biopsy
 incisional biopsy (removing a piece of the tumor)
 excisional biopsy (removing the entire tumor and some
surrounding normal liver tissue)
Lab tests
Alpha-fetoprotein blood (AFP) test
Other blood tests
 Liver function tests (LFTs)
 Blood clotting tests
 Tests for viral hepatitis
 Kidney function tests
 Complete blood count (CBC)
 Blood chemistry tests and other tests

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