Superfund Basic Research Program

Why Liver Cancer Is More Prevalent in Males than in Females

A research team led by Michael Karin, Ph.D. (Professor of pharmacology in UCSD’s Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction; and a researcher in UCSD’s Superfund Basic Research Program) found that the production of a protein that promotes inflammation appears to be linked to the higher incidence of liver cancer in men than in women. Their findings will be published in the July 6 issue of the journal Science.

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