11.   Such tumors frequently are seen in patients with liver cirrhosis, caused either from hepatitis or alcoholism, or in patients whose cancer has spread from elsewhere.

12.   Their death rate from liver cirrhosis is more than one-and-a-half times greater than that in the United States.

13.   Pillai died last week after a judge refused special medical treatment to Pillai, who suffered from liver cirrhosis.

14.   Pillai said he suffered from liver cirrhosis, but the judge had said he was not convinced of that.

15.   Gene treatment cures liver cirrhosis in rats, might apply to humans.

16.   His lawyer, I.U. Khan said the postmortem report found Pillai had died of excessive bleeding due to liver cirrhosis, according to United News of India news agency.

17.   Scientists wiped out liver cirrhosis in rats by injecting their muscles with a human gene, raising early hopes for a new treatment for people.