If you’ve been diagnosed with liver cancer, it’s important to know what stage your cancer is. That’s because how you treat your cancer depends on whether it’s early-stage or later-stage liver cancer.
If your liver cancer is stage I, your treatment plan will be different than if your liver cancer is stage IV. In this video, learn the ways that different stages of liver cancer are treated.
Dr. Newman is the Chief of Surgical Oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health System, and a professor at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
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