Oncology News

CHICAGO — Hospital-acquired conditions that patients developed after surgical resection for cancer may be linked to preoperative comorbidities in some cases, and they may negatively affect provider payments dictated by CMS, researchers said at Digestive Disease Week 2014.

The use of PET/CT vs. CT alone did not significantly change the surgical treatment in patients with potentially resectable hepatic metastases of colorectal adenocarcinoma.

For appropriately selected patients with peritoneal dissemination of an abdominal malignancy, cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy may offer significant long-term survival.

Hepatocellular carcinoma, also sometimes called hepatoma, is a form of cancer that begins primarily in the liver. It is the most common form of liver cancer, representing about 12,000 cases in the United States annually and 80% of all forms of liver cancers.

Participants in a community-based abdominal ultrasonography screening in Taiwan displayed a decreased hepatocellular carcinoma mortality rate, compared with patients who did not undergo the screening, according to recent study data.

Hepatic arterial infusion with high-concentration cisplatin before radical local treatment improved survival among patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma, according to study results.

Driven by declining liver mortality rates among Asians and Pacific Islanders and middle-aged men, incidence rates for hepatocellular cancer did not significantly increase in the US during a recent 11-year period, according to study results.

LONDON — Hepatocellular carcinoma may be treated using adoptive T-cell therapy, according to data from a study presented at the International Liver Congress.

Hepatitis B virus infection enhanced cell proliferation via HBx protein-induced microRNA-21 in hepatocellular carcinoma, according to recent study results.

Hepatocellular carcinoma cell growth in vitro was suppressed by 6-fluoro-3-formylchromone through cell cycle arrest that induced apoptosis, according to data from a recent study.