This year’s theme for Black History Month is Black Resistance.
Let’s raise our voices to eliminate health disparities.
Liver cancer rates are rising in the Black community while declining in other ethnic communities. Let us all do our part to increase awareness and liver cancer prevention in our community.Let’s raise our voices to eliminate health disparities.
Liver cancer rates are rising in the Black community while declining in other ethnic communities.
Let us all do our part to increase awareness and liver cancer prevention in our community.
What Does the Liver Do? – Liver Function
Your liver is vital to your metabolic, detoxification, and immune systems. It takes care of all your body’s functions. Your liver performs 300 functions for your body, including 200 at one time. Your liver eliminates toxins, stores 10 percent of your blood, and cleans 3 pints of blood every minute.
Cirrhosis of the Liver
Cirrhosis is a late stage of scarring of the liver caused by many forms of liver diseases and conditions. Each time your liver is injured, it tries to repair itself. In the process, scar tissue forms. Advanced cirrhosis is life-threatening, but there are steps you can take to keep your liver healthy and avoid this disease.
Liver Disease Related Symptoms
Your liver doesn’t have pain receptors. That is why liver cancer is often diagnosed in later stages. Although many cases of liver cancer are preventable, most symptoms go undetected and overlooked. Symptoms of liver disease can vary. It’s important to know what to look out for and when a symptom may be a sign of something more serious.
African Americans are
1.5x more likely
to get liver cancer and
incidence rates are on the rise
African Americans are
~2x more likely
to develop type 2 diabetes
African Americans are
2x more likely
to die from Hepatitis C and
can develop HCC at
earlier stages of liver disease
African Americans have
the highest
