Liver cancer: Lipid synthesis promotes tumor formation
Lipids comprise an optimal energy source and an important cell component. Researchers from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and from the University of Geneva have now discovered that the...
View ArticleStudy suggests colon cancer cells carry bacteria with them when they metastasize
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University has found evidence that suggests a certain type of bacteria found in colon cancer tumors makes its way to tumors in other body parts...
View ArticleA new strategy for prevention of liver cancer development
Primary liver cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and its incidences and mortality are increasing rapidly in the United Stated. In late stages of the malignancy,...
View ArticleHow chronic inflammation tips the balance of immune cells to promote liver...
Chronic inflammation is known to drive many cancers, especially liver cancer. Researchers have long thought that's because inflammation directly affects cancer cells, stimulating their division and...
View ArticleAcross Asia, liver cancer is linked to herbal remedies: study
Researchers have uncovered widespread evidence of a link between traditional Chinese herbal remedies and liver cancer across Asia, a study said Wednesday.
View ArticleUltra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care
Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes' husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it, but the choice was no guesswork. Sophisticated gene...
View ArticleTeam finds a potentially better way to treat liver cancer
A Keck School of Medicine of USC research team has identified how cancer stem cells survive. This finding may one day lead to new therapies for liver cancer, one of the few cancers in the United States...
View ArticleLiquid biopsy may be new way to detect liver cancer earlier, easier
An international team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues at Sun Yet-sun University Cancer Center and other collaborating...
View ArticleColorectal tumors initiate VEGF-A/CXCL1 cascade, creating distant niches for...
Primary colorectal tumors secrete VEGF-A, inducing CXCL1 and CXCR2-positive myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) recruitment at distant sites and establishing niches for future metastases, report...
View ArticleScrib protein identified as a natural suppressor of liver cancer
A protein that typically helps keep cells organized and on task becomes a tumor suppressor in the face of liver cancer, scientists say.
View ArticleStudy identifies a role for the metabolism regulator PPAR-gamma in liver cancer
Liver cancers are a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Large-scale genetic analyses have associated liver cancer with dysregulation of numerous molecular pathways, but disruptions in insulin...
View ArticleScientists stimulate immune system, stop cancer growth
A chemical found in tumors may help stop tumor growth, according to a new study.
View ArticleLiver tumor growth in mice slowed with new chemo-immunotherapy treatment
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, but treatment options are limited and many patients are diagnosed in late stages when the disease can't be treated. Now, University of...
View ArticleOne more piece in the puzzle of liver cancer identified
Manuela Baccarini and her team at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna are one step closer to unraveling the mechanisms behind liver...
View ArticleUnexpected activity of two enzymes helps explain why liver cancer drugs fail
Some cancers are caused by loss of enzymes that should keep cell growth in check. On the flip side, some are caused by over-activation of enzymes that enhance cell growth. Yet drugs that inhibit the...
View ArticleJet lag and obesity share similar pathways to liver cancer
Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related liver disease is one of the driving forces behind the increasing...
View ArticleStudy identifies possible mechanism for resistance to antiangiogenesis therapy
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have identified a potential mechanism behind the resistance that inevitably develops to cancer treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and...
View ArticleResearch uncovers defender against cancer-promoting liver damage
Most cases of liver cancer develop after long-term viral infection, chronic exposure to alcohol, or excessive accumulation of fat in the liver due to obesity. The liver reacts to those insults by...
View ArticlePancreatic cancer paves the path for metastases in the liver at an...
Pancreatic cancer is an exceptionally aggressive type of cancer. Frequently, metastases already start to grow in other organs, particularly often in the liver, before the original tumor was even...
View ArticleLung tumors hijack metabolic processes in the liver, study finds
University of California, Irvine scientists who study how circadian rhythms—our own body clocks—control liver function have discovered that cancerous lung tumors can hijack this process and profoundly...
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