It has been reported that some patients have been misdiagnosed with Hepatoma, when in fact the correct diagnosis in their specific case was Liver Cancer.
Liver cancer is most commonly hepatocellular carcinoma which is a cancer that begins in the cells of your liver that filter your blood. Symptoms of liver cancer include losing weight without trying, loss of appetite, upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, general weakness and fatigue, abdominal swelling, jaundice (yellowing of skin and whites of eyes) and white chalky faeces. Research has estimated that up to 23% of all liver cancer patients are misdiagnosed. Diseases that liver cancer can be misdiagnosed for include alveolar hydatid disease; a tape worm infection in the liver that causes lesions that can be mistaken for a cancerous mass, hepatic hemangioma (non-cancerous growth in the liver), and liver abscesses.