Ze-Guang Han and colleagues, at the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, have now identified SCARA5 as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a form of liver cancer that is the fifth most common cancer worldwide.
The research is reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Current Smoking Can Worsen Lung Cancer
TUESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) — Not only does cigarette smoke cause lung cancer, it worsens the disease by increasing lung inflammation, U.S. researchers have found.
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Cancer linked to our food
AN alarming US cancer report calls for the removal of toxins from food and water, warning the risk from chemicals was underestimated.
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