When a tumor first starts to grow in the liver, it is too small to be felt. Therefore, a patient would not know it even if he has liver cancer. However, the cancer cells grow very quickly, and when the cancer becomes serious, the body begins to show signs of liver cancer.

A person that has liver cancer will have these symptoms:

• Tiredness

• Pain in the upper-right area of the body
  At first, it would not be very painful, but as time passes, the pain will grow. After a while, pain may be felt in the back too.

• Constipation
  The patient spends a long time in the toilet as his faeces are hard and difficult to pass out.

• Jaundice
  The whites of the eye and the skin turns yellowish.

• Lack of appetite
  The patient does not feel like eating anything.

• Loss of weight