Liver cells exposed to a high fat diet revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.
A new study co-led by the Southern California Superfund Research and Training Program for PFAS Assessment, Remediation and ...
Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before tumors appear.
A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty ...
At least 60% of liver cancers globally are preventable through risk-factor reduction, including obesity-linked metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and cases caused by ...
MASLD and Liver Cancer: What’s the Link? Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a condition where too much fat builds up in your liver. Unlike fatty liver caused by heavy ...
Doctors often monitor tumor markers in the blood to help diagnose and treat liver cancer. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is the most common tumor marker that doctors monitor. Tumor markers, also called ...
How spreading tumour cells gain the ability to grow in organs away from where they originated is not fully understood. The discovery that normal liver cells help invading tumour cells to thrive in ...
The treatment plan for liver cancer can vary depending on the stage, size, and location of the tumor. Common options include surgery, ablation, cryotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted drug therapy.
Angiosarcoma of the liver is a rare, aggressive form of cancer that develops in the cells involved in immune system response. It accounts for about 0.1–2% of all liver cancers, but is the third most ...
No single blood test can diagnose liver cancer, but liver cancer blood tests can detect signs of liver dysfunction. Depending on a person’s signs and symptoms, a doctor may recommend further testing, ...
Cancer of the liver, seen in a radial cross-section abdominal scan. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The number of new liver cancer cases will nearly double in the next 25 ...