Researchers discover unusual genetic mutation linked to adolescent liver cancer

Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

In the race for better treatments and possible cures, rare diseases are often left behind. In a collaboration of researchers at The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York Genome Center, an unusual mutation has been found that is strongly linked to one such disease: a rare liver cancer that affects teens and young adults. More »

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