Effective treatments are still lacking for hepatocellular carcinoma or HCC, the most common type of liver cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related fatalities in Asia. Prognosis of patients with the disease has been and remains poor, with a 0.9 ratio of mortality to incidence.
A new innovative treatment approach is desperately needed to save lives of Asian patients with this deadly cancer.
Professor Daniel Tenen and his expert team of scientists at the Cancer Science Institute Singapore are designing small aptamers or very tiny pieces of RNA that will bind tightly to specific proteins associated with early development of liver cancer. These aptamers have the potential to reprogram the fate of the liver cell away from becoming cancerous and may offer the bold new treatment that patients need to save their lives. Click to learn more about this research program and its latest progress in 2020.
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