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<p style="text-align:start">In the United States, liver cancer rates have more than tripled since 1980 and Latino face an even higher risk than the general population&mdash;but researchers do not fully understand why. A study were just published in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/cncr.35000">Cancer</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://keck.usc.edu/">Keck School of Medicine of USC</a>, funded by the National Cancer Institute, has shed new light on those disparities. Researchers found that among...

Patients born outside of the U.S. may have improved liver cancer survival rates compared with U.S.-born patients, although more research is needed to determine what may be driving this effect, research showed.

Immigrant adults with liver cancer in the United States have higher survival rates than people with the disease who were born in the U.S., according to new research from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Immigrants comprise a significant proportion of those diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma in the U.S. Research has shown that birthplace, also referred to as nativity, impacts incidence and risk factors for HCC, but little was known about its influence on survival after diagnosis. The new study, just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, identified a previous...