Cancer of the Liver

UK sources of information and / or support

 The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes a leaflet called Primary Liver Cancer

 British Liver Trust

Provides support to people with liver conditions, and contains numerous factsheets.

 CancerHelp UK

CancerHelp UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. It is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. They believe that information about cancer should be freely available to all and written in a way that people can easily understand.

 Royal Marsden

A leading UK cancer centre, recognised worldwide for the quality of its services. Site includes comprehensive, authoritative patient information. See their Patient Information section.

 Children's Liver Disease Foundation

Caring for children and families suffering from liver disease.

 Cancerbackup

Cancerbackup aims to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professionals.

 Liver Cancer

Factsheet from the Core

 Radio frequency-assisted liver resection

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Radio frequency-assisted liver resection.

 Microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma.

 Microwave ablation for the treatment of metastases in the liver

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Microwave ablation for the treatment of metastases in the liver.

  Cancer of the Liver

Information from the North London Cancer Network

 Medicine Guide for Liver Cancers

Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.

 LIVErNORTH

LIVErNORTH is a regional adult liver patient support group based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. For people with all kinds of liver disease.

See also the Patient UK cancer page for many other links.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.