liver cancer

March 10, 2022

Bots boost liver cancer outcome

Vanderbilt researchers report that robotic-assisted surgery is comparable, if not superior, to laparoscopic surgery for early-stage liver cancer patients.

By Leah Mann 

December 13, 2018

Philip’s liver cancer research receives V Foundation support

Mary Philip, MD, PhD, has been named a 2019 V Scholar and will receive $200,000 from the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

By Tom Wilemon

September 14, 2018

Diabetes drug may prevent cancer

The research suggests that metformin should be further studied clinically for the prevention of liver cancer.

By VUMC News and Communications

April 12, 2018

Agreement renewal bolsters liver tumor research

Sirtex Medical Ltd. has renewed a grant award to Dan Brown, MD, professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and chief of Interventional Oncology, and his Vanderbilt Health colleagues, for a research program designed to treat patients with liver tumors that cannot be addressed with surgery.

By VUMC News and Communications

February 20, 2013

Factor CITED in pediatric liver cancer

Vanderbilt researchers report that they have found a factor involved in the persistence of embryonic cells implicated in childhood liver cancer.

By Leigh MacMillan

July 20, 2012

High consumption of vitamin E may lower liver cancer risk

By VUMC News and Communications