Dear Caraline,
I understand that it may feel depressing right now. But also, there is some issues to consider that might bring you some relief:
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While there is this link, the data are still not clear on how severe fatty liver needs to get before there really is an increase in liver cancer risk. It may be that mild fatty liver does not raise it much, but it’s important to keep monitoring so that it doesn’t get worse.
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You know about your health status way before any thing very serious is happening. For many people, the first sign they get of their liver disease is their liver failing or cancer. This means you can do something about it.
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Indeed, fatty liver is a condition that you can generally do something with healthy lifestyle measures. There are many conditions that we have no control over, either being born with it (e.g. congenital diseases) or being unavoidably/inadvertently exposed (e.g. Hep B).
I hope that gives you some context and some optimism for the future.
Thomas