Sentences with phrase «fibrolamellar hepatocellular»
Three CRI postdoctoral fellows ⎯ Kevin C. Barry, Ph.D., at the University of California, San Francisco; Sofia L. Novais de Oliveira, Ph.D., at the University of Wisconsin - Madison; and Kevin M. Sullivan, M.D., at the University of Washington School of Medicine; and assistant professor of medicine Amy K. Kim, M.D., at Johns Hopkins University — are exploring how immunotherapy could help against fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL - HCC), a rare form of liver cancer that primarily affects young people.
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Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL - HCC) is a devastating cancer affecting children and young adults and currently does not have an effective systemic chemotherapy.
With the approval of the local ethics committee, a 16 - year - old boy with a rare type of liver cancer called fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma was given infusions of 3BP into the blood vessels supplying the tumor, formulated in a proprietary and patented fashion.
The scientists recommend that people with advanced - stage fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which mostly affects teenagers and young adults, receive regular neuroimaging scans because of the tumor's apparent ability to metastasize to the brain.