Cancer

Data from University of Hong Kong, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine provide new insights into cancer

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 17th, 2008

Researchers detail in 'Molecular pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma,' new data in cancer. "Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Hepatocarcinogenesis is a multistep process evolving from normal through chronic hepatitis/cirrhosis and dysplastic nodules to HCC," researchers in Hong Kong report.

"With advances in molecular methods, there is a growing understanding of the molecular mechanisms in hepatocarcinogenesis. Hepatocarcinogenesis is strongly linked to increases in allelic losses, chromosomal changes, gene mutations, epigenetic alterations and alterations in molecular cellular...

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