Putting a Stop to Progressing Liver Cancer

Apoptosis Inhibitor of Macrophage, a protein that plays a preventive role in obesity progression, has been found to prevent tumor development in mice liver cells, by a University of Tokyo research group. This discovery may lead to a therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer and the third most common cause of cancer deaths. Professor Toru Miyazaki's group at the Laboratory of Molecular Biomedicine from Pathogenesis, in the Faculty ...