Liver Cancer News

Treatment rates appear to be declining, in part because only half of the patients know they are infected.

New peer-reviewed data finding that fewer than one-fifth of the nearly 4 million Americans infected with chronic hepatitis C virus have received anti-viral therapy in recent years should be a wake-up call that Congress needs to move urgently on bipartisan legislation to support new state-based detection, research, and surveillance efforts, the ...

Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand politician who briefly served as Thailand's prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died of cancer Tuesday.

Main Category: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Also Included In: Men's health ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder ...

A Ringwood -based charity has attacked the decision not to allow NHS patients a last hope drug for treating liver cancer.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is currently appraising the use of sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in patients for whom surgery or therapies in the region the cancer arose have failed or are not suitable.

In patients with unresectable liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's chance of long-term survival, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology .

Here are two stories from right-of-center British newspapers about the prescribing of one drug that show some of the issues involved in the way that the British system actually works.

'I no longer feel ill': Tony Almond and his wife Sharon at their wedding when he found out he only had a month to live.

A drug that can prolong the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer has been rejected for use in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The only cancer drug shown to extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of liver cancer has been turned down by the NHS medicines watchdog.

MicroRNA and Liver Cancer Joan Stephenson, PhD JAMA. 2009;302 :2083. A tiny piece of genetic material known as microRNA may help predict which patients with liver cancer will respond well to treatment with interferon, report a team of researchers in China and the United States .

A bipartisan bill allocating support for hepatitis infection prevention and treatment has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives.

LITTLE more than one year after Birdbrook teenager Maggie Vale died tragically young from cancer, her family doctor and his daughter have run in the New York Marathon in her memory a ' raising almost A 1,500 for charity.

10-11 Who: Curtis Salgado When: 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 10-11 Where: Crystal Bay Casino's Red Room Cover: free Curtis Salgado's getaway remains clean.

Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the United States .

Riad Salem, M.D., an interventional radiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill., explains how a technique called radioembolization is used in the treatment of liver cancer.

Three new studies by Japanese scientists add even more evidence to what already is an astounding mountain of data showing green tea protects and heals the human body.

Waiting to die, that's how health care professionals see many Southeast Texans who are at the end of their rope trying in vain to qualify for medical help.