Hepatocellular carcinoma

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: LIVER CELL CARCINOMA
CANCER, HEPATOCELLULAR
HEPATOBLASTOMA CAUSED BY SOMATIC MUTATION, INCLUDED
LIVER CANCER
HEPATOMA HEPATOBLASTOMA, INCLUDED
LCC
HCC
Number of Symptoms 7
OrphanetNr: 88673
OMIM Id: 114550
ICD-10: C22.0
UMLs:
MeSH: D006528
MedDRA: 10049010
Snomed: 25370001

Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: 1 of 100 000 [Orphanet]
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant inheritance
Heterogeneous
[Omim]
Age of onset: All ages
[Orphanet]

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: Rare hepatic tumor
 -Rare hepatic disease
 -Rare oncologic disease

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0006572) Subacute progressive viral hepatitis 1 / 7739
2
(HPO:0001413) Micronodular cirrhosis 11 / 7739
3
(HPO:0001402) Hepatocellular carcinoma 25 / 7739
4
(OMIM) Often integrated HBV sequences in hepatocellular carcinomas 1 / 7739
5
(OMIM) Primary liver cancer 1 / 7739
6
(HPO:0001428) Somatic mutation 100 / 7739
7
(HPO:0000006) Autosomal dominant inheritance 2518 / 7739

Associated genes:

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Description: (OMIM) Hepatocellular carcinoma is the major histologic type of malignant primary liver neoplasm. It is the fifth most common cancer and the third most common cause of death from cancer worldwide. The major risk factors for HCC are chronic ...
Clinical Description OMIM Primary cancer of the liver in 3 brothers was described by Kaplan and Cole (1965) and by Hagstrom and Baker (1968). In these patients there was no recognized preexisting liver disease. Denison et al. (1971) described 2 adult ...
Molecular genetics OMIM - Somatic Mutations

Oda et al. (1996) observed loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the APC and/or MCC (159350) loci in 4 (57%) of 7 informative hepatoblastoma tissues. Somatic mutations were detected in 8 (61.5%) of the ...