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By Pamela Ellertson Wicked Local.com, Winchester Star: Health
Wed, 10/28/2015 - 1:47pm

Once a cancer that amounted to just over 1 percent of all cancers in the US, the incidence of liver cancer has tripled in recent decades. That’s the bad news.Giving doctors and patients hope though, is the fact that many conditions including alcohol abuse, hepatitis C, and obesity, which are linked to the development of some liver cancers, are [...]

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