“In my career of almost 30 years, I've never seen a liver cancer patient that did not have a chronic underlying liver disease,” Dr. Mindie H. Nguyen told CURE®. In the world of cancer, liver cancer is ...

Liver cancer starts in the tissues of the liver, an important organ that helps clean the blood and digest food. While liver cancer is not very common in the United States, some groups, including ...

WASHINGTON -- Liver cancer risk after hepatitis C virus (HCV) cure was significantly greater in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to a ...

BARCELONA, Spain — In a surprising number of patients with hepatitis C and cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma develops within weeks of starting treatment with direct-acting antivirals, new research ...

Mental health conditions are common among veterans and may play a larger role than previously recognized in raising liver cancer risk for those with hepatitis C. A new study led by UCLA Health Jonsson ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have officially classified the Hepatitis D virus (HDV) as carcinogenic to humans. This places HDV ...

As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths. Every 30 ...

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use may be limited unless insurers' reimbursement rises to cover its high cost ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...