The liver is one of the most important organs in the body. It removes toxins from the blood and regulates the levels of chemicals. It excretes a product called bile which helps you digest fat. It makes clotting factors and stores sugar that the body uses for energy. The number of people with liver cancer in the United States has more than tripled since 1980, while the death rate has more than doubled in the same time. Read more at cinj.org.
Miral Sadaria Grandhi, MD, director of Hepatobiliary Surgery at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey