A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. The discovery is of great interest for cancer medicine because a change of identity of cells has come into focus as a ...

Even after eating a huge meal, when barely able to move, many people can find 'room for dessert'. Now scientists may have found the reason why it is so hard to resist a sweet pudding. A process in ...

Hereditary hemochromatosis is an inherited iron overload disorder caused by inappropriately low hepcidin secretion leading to increased duodenal absorption of dietary iron, most commonly in C282Y ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization ... in renal transplant recipients. During liver transplantation, the CYP3A5 expressor or ...

Most often when cancer is found in the liver, it didn’t start there. Many cancers that start somewhere else in the body, such as the pancreas, colon, stomach, breast, or lung, can spread (metastasize) ...

Liver cancer, or hepatic cancer, is a malignant tumour that grows on the surface or inside the liver. The leading cause is a viral infection with hepatitis B or C virus. The most frequent liver ...

Objective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) shows a remarkable predilection for liver metastasis. Pro-oncogenic secretome delivery and trafficking via exosomes are crucial for pre-metastatic ...

Canker sores and oral cancer lesions can be similar in appearance but there are ways to tell the difference. A lesion that's red, typically flat, and painful early on is usually a canker sore ...

Larger waistlines are linked to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and even cancer. Losing weight ... would otherwise signal the body to hang on to fat—and causes the liver to use up fatty acids ...

More than 67,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Learn more about the disease and how PanCAN can help.