Prevention
One of the most beneficial methods of primary prevention is immunization, and luckily there is a hepatitis B vaccine that everyone should take to decrease their risk of getting the virus, especially those at increased risk like health care workers and people living in endemic areas of hepatitis B.
Unfortunately, there is no hepatitis C vaccine available at the moment, but there are plenty of antiviral drugs available for patients with hepatitis C that can drastically decrease their risk of getting cancer, especially if treatment starts in the early stages before progressing to cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease.
Other forms of prevention include: using safe injection methods with proper sterilization techniques, proper handling of waste products that were in contact with blood, and screening blood products before supplying patients with them.
Reducing alcohol consumption and healthy eating habits with proper exercise to avoid obesity and diabetes with its related problems especially in the western hemisphere are also important methods for reducing the risk of getting liver cancer.
Prognosis
The prognosis is related to the tumor stage and treatment modality used with curative options reaching up to 70% 5-year survival rates compared to 1 to 2 year median survival for advanced stages treated with systemic chemotherapy.
