{"id":430,"date":"2018-10-09T20:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2020-02-14T17:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:46:53","slug":"stages-of-liver-cancer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/conditions-we-treat\/liver-cancer\/stages-of-liver-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stages of Liver Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p-lg\">When we diagnose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/conditions-we-treat\/liver-cancer\/\">liver cancer<\/a>, the next step is to determine how far the cancer cells have spread through a process called staging.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-whld=\"tested\">The National Cancer Institute<\/a> defines the following stages for primary liver cancer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Localized resectable:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cancer is in the liver only, has not spread, and can be removed completely with surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Localized unresectable:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cancer is in the liver only, has not spread, but cannot be totally removed, usually due to its location near major blood vessels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advanced:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cancer has spread throughout the liver or to other parts of the body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Recurrent:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cancer has come back after it was treated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we diagnose liver cancer, the next step is to determine how far the cancer cells have spread through a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layers":false,"int_alt_page_title":"","int_page_description":"","int_masthead_image":false,"int_page_icon":"","int_secondary_cta_override":false,"int_secondary_cta_is_hidden":false,"header_scripts":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/gastrointestinal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}