Liver Cancer
Research breakthrough offers new hope for liver cancer treatment
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 9th, 2005
Professor John Mayer and Dr. Simon Dawson, in collaboration with colleagues at Japan's Kyoto University, have discovered the function of a new liver oncoprotein - or cancer-causing protein - which could be the first step to finding effective new treatments for the deadly illness.
The research, published in the journal Cancer Cell, centers on the most common malignant liver cancers, hepatocellular carcinomas, which arise from the liver cells themselves. Primary liver cancer is relatively rare in...
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