الفهرس 
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Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the fifth most common malignancy and is the leading cause of mortality in patients with cirrhosis. An estimated half million new cases are diagnosed each year world-wide with disease burden highest in developing countries (85% of all cases). The average age of diagnosis is 65 years with a shift in the last decade toward diagnosis at an earlier age. This trend is especially seen in developing countries and has implications for treatment. Rates of HCC are two to four times higher in men compared to women (Waghray et al., 2015).
Un healthy life style patterns can lead to increase HCC risk, rapid progression and can cause disease recurrence after recovery. The knowledge about risk factors for HCC, effective surveillance for high risk groups, early detection and life style modification can provide opportunity and chance for the development and implementation of successful preventive strategies to decrease the worldwide burden of HCC ( Schutte et al., 2016).
The aim of the present study was to assess the life style patterns of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma; this aim achieved through: Assessing patients knowledge about hepatocellular carcinoma, assessing patients life style patterns and it’s effect on the disease and developing instruction guideline for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma to improve their life style patterns.
Subject and methods: The study was conducted at Liver Tumors Out-Patient Clinic, National Liver Institute in Menoufyia University. A descriptive design was used in carrying out this study. The sample of study was systematic random sample and it was included 240 patients