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If the tests you have show that you have primary liver cancer your doctor may need to do some further tests. These will tell the doctor more about the cancer and show whether it has begun to spread.
This test allows the doctors to see how the tumour is affecting the main blood vessels around the liver. A fine tube is inserted into an artery in your groin and a dye is injected through the tube. The dye circulates in the arteries to make them show up on x-ray. An angiogram is carried out in a room within the x-ray department.
Sometimes an MRI scan can be used to show up the blood vessels of the liver (which means that an angiogram will not be necessary).
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