All Posts: liver cancer

• Georgetown Study Highlights Opportunities for Liver Cancer Interventions in Thailand

  Safer pesticide practices, clean drinking water, and effective community health programs could help reduce liver and bile duct cancer risk in Thailand, according to a new study by researchers at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

  Category: News Release Tags: bile duct cancer, cancer research, global health, global oncology, liver cancer, pesticide use, Thailand

• New Drug Prevents Liver Damage, Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice on High-Fat Diet

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

• Georgetown Lombardi Clinical Trial Helps Advance Use of Immunotherapy in Liver Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, liver cancer

• Celebrating National Postdoc Appreciation Week

  Reiko Asano, PhD, RN Reiko Asano, PhD, RN, is a postdoc in the department of professional nursing practice studying palliative care in heart failure. Reiko was inspired to study cardiovascular disease after caring for patients suffering from high symptom burden and repeated hospitalizations. Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD, is […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, epilepsy, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, neuroscience, pharmacology

• Can Green Tea Prevent Liver Cancer? A Georgetown Lombardi Physician-Scientist Team Up to Find Out

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, green tea extract, liver cancer

• Finding Liver Cancer Early and Reversing Its Course

  Liver cancer is often lethal in humans because it is diagnosed in late stages, but new work in animal models has identified a potential diagnostic biomarker of the disease and a potential way to reverse the damage done.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer