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This is cancer that has started somewhere else in the body and has spread to the liver.
The most common types of cancer that spread to the liver start in the bowel, breast|, pancreas, stomach, lung, ovary|, or skin (melanoma).
If you have secondary liver cancer you may find it helpful to read this information together with the information for your primary cancer.
Sometimes, secondary cancer is found in the liver and yet, even with thorough medical tests, it is not possible to find out where the cancer started. This may be because the primary tumour is too small to detect and is causing no symptoms. This is sometimes called unknown primary cancer or tumour|.
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