Published September 1, 2014 6:07pm (Updated 7:58 p.m.)
On Monday morning, actor Mark Gil passed away of liver cancer, his family announced in a statement.In a press release by St. Luke's Center for Liver Diseases, Juliet L. Gopez-Cervantes, MD characterized the liver as a vital organ, without which a person could not possibly survive.
However, she added, it is also a "silent organ.""It is a silent organ because it can be damaged without sending any signals or symptoms.
Many people live with liver disease for a long time without ever knowing it," she said.Some of the symptoms of liver disease may be nonspecific to the liver, and often patients have few or no signs of any liver disease at all, which makes the disease all the more dangerous.There are, however, common and visible symptoms of a disease like cirrhosis of the liver, including yellowing of the skin or jaundice, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, itching, and easy bruising because of the inability of the liver to function for blood clotting..
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