The major drivers of liver cancer are largely preventable – yet public awareness of the disease remains low.
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The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the U.S.
Before universal vaccination for hepatitis B began in 1991, 18,000 children contracted the virus by age 10 each year, and most of them developed chronic illness and liver damage. Vaccination reduced those infections by 95%.
The government linked alcohol with seven types of cancers, prompting the US surgeon general to call for warning labels on beer, wine and liquor.
Liver transplants could offer hope to patients with difficult to treat, advanced bowel cancer.
Brief exposure to a family of chemicals used as flame retardants early in life can permanently alter fat levels in the blood and liver, raising the risk of liver cancer and heart disease.
A new analysis shows that the US health care system will save money in the long run by screening people born in Asia and Africa for the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver cancer and cirrhosis.
To prevent the epidemic of liver cancer that looms on the horizon, we need to tackle hepatitis B, hepatitis C and obesity.
If England eliminates hepatitis C, it will be the first country to do so. But how feasible is it?
Hepatitis B rates in Indigenous communities are ten times higher than the rest of Australia. Eliminating the infection from Indigenous Australia can make a significant contribution to closing the gap.
Australia has been subsidising drugs to cure hepatitis C since March 2016. Unlike in many other countries, these are available to everyone with the disease and are much cheaper for our government.
While other cancer rates fall or remain static, liver cancer is on the rise. Here’s why we need to start paying attention.
The newer drugs for hepatitis C might mean fewer people are diagnosed with liver cancer.
A promising new immunotherapy to treat liver cancer has been discovered.
New Scottish alcoholic liver disease figures show how far country’s problem is from being under control.
Childhood deaths from cancer have decreased by nearly 40% in the past 15 years in Australia. But some types of childhood cancer have shown little improvement.
Liver cancer in Africans tends to occur between the ages of 30 and 40. But a study has found that it occurs at a significantly younger age in those who are infected with HIV and hepatitis B.
This body map brings together evidence on proven cancer causes. Using credible, scientific sources it answers questions about whether alcohol, red meat or sun exposure increase your cancer risk.
New drug combination cures over 95% of cases but the cost would swallow the entire health budget. Pity the politicians that have to figure this one out.
Nearly 40,000 cancers diagnosed in Australia can be prevented if people avoid known risk factors for the disease, according to research published today.
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Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide University
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Infectious Diseases Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Scientia Professor, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor at University of Melbourne and Research Fellow, Cancer Council Victoria
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Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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PhD student in Biology, University of Rochester
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Research Associate, The Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Medicine in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos
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Senior Researcher and Pathologist in the Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy , University of Michigan
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Researcher, Glasgow Caledonian University