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hepatoblastoma.ppt
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2. Hepatoblastoma only affects children of 3
years or younger.
Hepatoblastoma is a tumor that originates in
the liver or gallbladder and has a potential to
spread to any other organs causing multiple
kinds of cancer.
This disorder always starts out as a golf ball
sized tumor on the right lobe of the liver.
At around 18 months is when it starts.
100 cases reported of this disorder each year.
3. Many genetic disorders can lead to having
Hepatoblastoma instead of the original
disorder.
The main two genetic disorders that lead to
this disease Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
and familial adenomatous polyposis
This can be passed to the child through
unknown recessive genes.
4. The most common
symptoms include:
A large abdominal mass, or
swollen abdomen
Weight loss
Decreased appetite
Abdominal pain.
Vomiting.
Jaundice – yellowing of eyes or
skin.
Fever
Itching Skin
Anemia – pale skin and lips from
decreased number of red blood
cells.
Back pain from compression of
the tumor.
This picture shows
how big the
abdomen can get.
5. The only “prevention”
is to see if you have
the recessive genes
either the disease
itself or the other
diseases that causes
it.
If you find out that
you have the mutated
genes then the best
thing to do is to not
have children.
6. Treatment depends on what
stage the tumor is at
Stage 1: Easily and completely
removed tumor.
Stage 2: Removed with a little
bit of the tumor left, which is
inactive because of a small
amount of chemotherapy.
Stage 3: Can’t be removed by
surgery alone, must have
chemotherapy to decrease the
size of the tumor, then the
tumor gets removed,
Stage 4: No treatment, 100%
fatal This is around a Stage 4
The tumor
has
completely
consumed the
right half of
the liver in
this picture.
This is usually
what stage
three looks
like.