A new study reported on in the May 2009 issue of the journal Hepatology has found that women with a history of hypothyroidism face a substantially higher risk of developing liver cancer. Researchers at the Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas looked at 420 patients with liver cancer, versus 1,104 healthy control patients. What they found was that 15 percent of the liver cancer patients had a history of thyroid disease, compared to 12 percent of the controls. In general, women with a history of hypothyroidism had double the risk of liver cancer, and women with a history of more than 10 years of hypothyroidism had three times the risk of liver cancer compared to women without thyroid problems.
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Source: Hassan, Manal et. al. "Association Between Hypothyroidism and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: USA Case-Control Study." Hepatology; May 2009. Online
Is there anything about this disease that is curable or a reason to keep fighting the fight? Are there any institutions, labs, or whatever trying to find a cure for thyroid? Give me a name so I can donate either time or money.
Liver cancer can be treated, to keep your body strong take milk thistle for your liver and make sure to do a colon cleanse, If you are hypo it is probably harder on your liver to excrete toxins so you will want to help it, that is where the milk thistle and or reishi will come in. I know of what I speak my Dad had liver cancer and we cured it. it is documented. Good luck and most of all STAY Positive!!!