Oncology News

The benefits of liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were better than hepatic resection during a 10-year scenario compared with 5 years, according to an analysis evaluating both procedures in a recent study.

Patients with huge hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent surgical resection demonstrated superior OS compared with patients who underwent transarterial chemoembolization, according to study results.

Patients with huge hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent surgical resection demonstrated superior OS compared with patients who underwent transarterial chemoembolization, according to study results.

Boosted by a 15% increase in 2013 antiviral product sales over the previous year, Gilead Sciences announced fourth-quarter sales were up 21% from 2012 and full-year revenues improved by 15%, according to a company press release.

Cancer will become a significantly larger global health care burden in the next 2 decades, with incidence expected to rise by 57% and deaths projected to increase by 63%, according to WHO’s World Cancer Report 2014.

Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who failed first-line therapy may have benefited from having liver reserves of Child-Turcotte-Pugh class A or being eligible for clinical trials to improve their prognosis for overall survival, according to study data.

Recent study data have found that lifelong monitoring of individuals carrying dormant chronic hepatitis B in Shanghai appears to be cost-effective, but meaningful effects on hepatocellular carcinoma, cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B mortality would require increased testing, follow-up and treatment rates of active patients.

Diabetes, colorectal and liver cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction, age-related macular degeneration and other conditions have now been added to the list of diseases caused by cigarette smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, according to a new report issued by the Surgeon General of the United States.

Diabetes, colorectal and liver cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction, age-related macular degeneration and other conditions have now been added to the list of diseases caused by cigarette smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, according to a new report issued by the Surgeon General of the United States.

Despite success in detecting hepatocellular carcinoma nodules that conventional dynamic computed tomography failed to reveal, combined computed tomography with hepatic arteriography and arterial portography did not result in improved cumulative recurrence-free survival or overall survival, a recent study found.