#liver cancer

Opdivo Immunotherapy Improves Survival for People With Liver Cancer

Researchers looked both at the first and second time people with HIV have been diagnosed with cancer.

Use of medications like Prilosec and Nexium were associated with a higher liver cancer rate in a recent large study.

Alcohol is linked to several types of cancer, especially among people over 50, but the absolute risk of light drinking is low.

Study showed significant improvement in progression-free survival with lenvatinib compared to sorafenib.

Lenvima works as well as standard therapy for metastatic or unresectable cancer.

Benefits include lower rates of cancer recurrence and microvascular invasion, which is associated with poor post-surgery outcomes.

Women with the chronic condition are 6 percent more likely than men to develop cancer.

This includes a higher risk of liver cancer, cirrhosis-related complications and death.

Twice as many patients were alive 18 months after starting treatment.

Liver cancer rates and deaths have doubled in the United States, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom.

Scientific evidence does not support warning signs about acrylamide cancer risk.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Findings shed light on mechanisms that lead to liver cancer and for approaches to treat them.

October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month.