This Year's Liver Cancer Death Counter:

Last Year's Count: 630,000

Description: Tumors on the liver, not a pretty thing. This type of cancer is often spread from another part of the body, or from a Hepatitis infection. Due to poor medical care, life expectancy for patients of the disease in sub-Saharan African is only 3-months.

At Risk: Liver cancer is more prevalent in developing and 3rd world nations. Exact cause is unknown but exposure to vinyl chloride apparently doesn't help..

The Cure: Liver-transplant, surgical removal of the tumor, chemotherapy. The survival rate for the afflicted depends greatly on early detection.

Prevention: Hepatitis vaccination prevents one cause of the disease. Recent studies in Europe claim that lipiodol helps to prevent the cancer.