10.27.2021 Reduce Your Risk! APIAHF Observes Liver Cancer Awareness Month

October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month. Liver cancer, in the early stages, may be hard to detect. By learning about the symptoms and more about liver cancer, you can help to prevent it. Read more about your risk, signs and symptoms, and how you can screen and prevent liver cancer!

Last week U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) re-introduced legislation to increase federal support for liver cancer research and help make life-saving preventive and treatment services more accessible to people all across the country. The Liver Illness Visibility, Education and Research (LIVER) Act would increase funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which would help to “make sure the federal government is properly investing in studying liver cancer, finding a cure and increasing access to preventive and primary cancer services that detect the disease early and save lives.”

Download our infographic on liver cancer here.