 I am Dr. Olyth Selvan, Consultant Hepatologist and Chairman Division of Liver Transplantation in Manipal Hospital. The prognosis of liver cancer entirely depends upon the stage at which the liver cancer is diagnosed. If you diagnose liver cancer early, there is a potential for cure and lifelong free of the disease. That will include liver transplantation and liver resection but unfortunately majority of our patients in India more than 90% come at a stage where this option is not possible. If you look at other extreme, they generally present with symptoms when the disease is very advanced and then you only opt for a palliative treatment which means looking after the symptoms and trying to control their pain by which there is only a few months to live. In between these two extreme stages, by doing various methods to limit the tumor progression and to shrink the size of the tumor, you can prolong longevity by a few years.