 [ Symptoms ] for a 65 male age 45 @ 210 lbs should the consumption of 5 7 beers per evening be cause for concern  married 3 boys ages 7 6 and 3  noticeable irritability in evenings unreasonably impatient he has never physically harmed any of us our doctor believes he has a problem with alcohol i believe he has a problem he does not think he has a problem because he stays at home not in bars and does not ever drink and drive he helps run the family owned liquor store and brings home a 30 pack of beer each week and sneaks in other quantities when i am not around [ Disease ] the normal liver gets its blood supply from two sources the portal vein about 70 and the hepatic artery 30 primary liver cancer also known as hepatoma or hepatocellular carcinoma gets its blood exclusively from the hepatic artery making use of this fact investigators have delivered chemotherapy drugs selectively through the hepatic artery directly to the hcc tumor the theoretical advantage is that higher concentrations of the agents can be delivered to the tumors without subjecting the patients to the body wide toxicity of the drugs