Decore was a two-time cancer survivor, having survived colon cancer in 1990 and liver cancer two years later, but a third incidence killed him in 1999.
It is narrated by a 35-year-old man (like all the characters he is not named) who is lying in hospital waiting to die of liver cancer, although the doctors do not believe that the cancer is real.
The risk of developing liver cancer (or bile duct cancer) in former Thorotrast patients has been measured to be well above 100 times the risk of the rest of the population.
GSHV runs a milder course when inoculated into woodchucks with the delayed onset of HCC.
Hepatocellular carcinoma | Squamous-cell carcinoma | squamous-cell carcinoma | Renal cell carcinoma | nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome | Merkel cell carcinoma | Chimney sweeps' carcinoma | Carcinoma | Adrenocortical carcinoma |