Cancerwise

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer, but it can be difficult to treat. It’s often not caught until its later stages, and it occurs most frequently in people with chronic liver conditions, such as cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B or hepatitis C. For some of these patients, surgery is not an option, and they have to consider other treatment types.

Two UT MD Anderson investigators have spent...

Xiling Shen, Ph.D., was an electrical engineering professor when a landmark discovery prompted him to shift the focus of his work and dedicate his lab to precision medicine.

Throughout his life, Shen had felt the pull of medicine. As a high school student in Shanghai, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. But when he was in high school, he lost his uncle to colorectal cancer. Watching his uncle suffer caused Shen to fear that a career...