Recent studies show that hyperactivation of mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signaling plays a causal role in the development of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection. Modulation of PP2A ...

Several published reports have improved our understanding of the benefits and limitations of endovascular technology. That the natural history of the dissected aorta can be altered with an ...

Liver cancer is uncommon in the United States, but it is common worldwide due to risk factors such as chronic hepatitis B and C infections and exposure to aflatoxin (toxins produced by a certain ...

Salk Institute researchers found that regulating bile acids—specifically reducing harmful ones and increasing UDCA—can enhance T cell function and potentially make immunotherapy more effective for ...

Lung cancer liver metastases are tumors that form in the liver from ... chemoembolization for clinical remission of small cell lung cancer: A case report. Thoracic Cancer. 2018;9(5):646-651.

A nurse, left "devastated" by her diagnosis, has bravely come forward to share the four warning signs that led to the discovery of her liver cancer. Marissa Antonio was only 39 when doctors found ...

This effect increases the risk of cancer in the mouth and throat, in particular. Compared with cancers of the mouth, throat and liver, the link between alcohol and cancers of the colon and rectum ...

Long classified as a subset of common liver cancer, FLC should be considered its own unique disease. Now researchers are testing a combination drug therapy that targets FLC tumors. Like many rare ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday.

The number of people dying from liver cancer has nearly doubled in the past two decades and is projected to keep rising, new analysis shows, despite around half of cases being preventable.