Modern unhealthy lifestyles and dietary habits have led to a yearly increase in the incidence of metabolism-related liver cancer. A research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with Peking University (PKU), found that fats in liver cancer can reprogram immune cells, causing them to malfunction and driving resistance to current first-line liver-cancer treatments. The findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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