A new scoring system using common clinical parameters accurately identifies chronic liver disease patients with a significantly increased risk of developing liver cancer. This tool acts as a universal predictor, helping doctors ...
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A clinical oncology research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), has developed an innovative big data platform, called the ...
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An international collaborative study has identified the E2F2 protein as a potential new therapeutic target to prevent metabolic fatty liver disease from progressing toward more serious conditions, such as cirrhosis or liver ...
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A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient.
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A research team led by Prof. Wang Yi and Wei Haiming from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Prof. Ding Chen's team from Human Phenome Institute at Fudan University, has elucidated ...
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Patients with intermediate stage primary liver cancer who received a vaccine of dendritic cells saw a longer time without tumor progression in response to standard treatment, according to a new study led by the University ...
Aug 26, 2025
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Researchers from the School of Biomedical Sciences at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), have made a significant advancement that could reshape the treatment landscape for hepatocellular carcinoma ...
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Among the many forms of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common and one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. It is a complex disease with multiple aggressive subtypes that are ...
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A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center may help explain why certain liver tumors return quickly after thermal ablation, a widely used minimally-invasive, image-guided technique ...
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The National Cancer Institute and University of Oxford report that oral contraceptive use is not associated with increased liver cancer risk, based on a population-based analysis of more than 1.5 million women and a review ...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, also called malignant hepatoma) is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection (hepatitis B or C) or cirrhosis (alcoholism being the most common cause of hepatic cirrhosis).
Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States. In countries where hepatitis is not endemic, most malignant cancers in the liver are not primary HCC but metastasis (spread) of cancer from elsewhere in the body, e.g., the colon. Treatment options of HCC and prognosis are dependent on many factors but especially on tumor size and staging. Tumor grade is also important. High-grade tumors will have a poor prognosis, while low-grade tumors may go unnoticed for many years, as is the case in many other organs, such as the breast, where a ductal carcinoma in situ (or a lobular carcinoma in situ) may be present without any clinical signs and without correlate on routine imaging tests, although in some occasions it may be detected on more specialized imaging studies like MR mammography.
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