Science news articles about 'liver cancer patients'

... York have found that sorafenib (Nexavar) helps patients with advanced liver cancer live about 44 percent ... New York, and a Professor at the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Group in Barcelona, Spain ...

... Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is available online ... 2007, the researchers enrolled 61 liver cancer patients whose tumor stage exceeded ...

... Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine ... tissues and applied it to samples from more than 300 liver cancer patients. Their work uncovered a striking pattern ...

... outcomes. The researchers are optimistic that oncologists will be able to use this information to determine which liver cancer patients would likely suffer recurrence and treat them to help prevent ...

... on Capn4. They examined it further to determine its association with clinical outcomes of liver cancer patients who undergo transplantation. The findings show that Capn4 is an important molecule ...

... (HCC), in the U.S. They included 420 patients with liver cancer and 1,104 healthy controls. ... hepatitis C. About 15 percent of the liver cancer patients had a history of thyroid disease, compared ...

... -- A small RNA molecule, known as a microRNA, may help physicians identify liver cancer patients who, in spite of their poor prognosis, could respond well to treatment with a biological agent called ...

... levels but also promotes fat breakdown in the liver. Cancer patients, too, might benefit from these findings ... so that too much fat accumulates in the liver, while peripheral organs are hardly supplied ...

... risk for tumor recurrence and death in liver cancer patients receiving transplantation. Low-Dose ... Fibrosis in Hepatitis C Virus Infected Liver Transplant Recipients: Experience at an Urban Referral ...