liver cancer

liver cancer

English

Noun

liver cancer (usually uncountable, plural liver cancers)

1. (pathology) A malignant neoplasm of the liver.
   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.

Hyponyms

• hepatocellular carcinoma

Translations

malignant neoplasm of the liver

Chinese: Mandarin: 肝癌 (zh) (gān'ái) Finnish: maksasyöpä (fi) Japanese: 肝癌 (ja) (かんがん, kangan) Korean: 간암(肝癌) (ko) (ganam) Portuguese: câncer de fígado m Russian: рак пе́чени m (rak péčeni) Swedish: levercancer (sv) c Ukrainian: рак печінки m (rak pečinky)

See also

• liver cancer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia