The treatment of liver liver cancer is expensive, high tech and on the rise.

But that doesn’t address the issue fully.

African -Americans face obstacles such as, lack of insurance, information, community and family support.

There is also the issue of discrimination within the medical community toward minority patients.

American Cancer Society statistics have shown the following:

African Americans with liver cancer are less likely than whites to get a transplant for the disease, according to U.S. researchers.

About one in 100 men in the U.S. develop the cancer at some point, while women are less than half as likely to do so, according to the American Cancer Society

The researchers found that over the first half of the study, white liver cancer patients had a 30 percent chance of receiving a new liver, compared to only 15 percent for blacks.

Although there are probably several reasons for the disparity, the biggest driver is the difference in access to care at the early stages of the disease due to health insurance.