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New Liver Cancer Cure Developed By Korean Scientists
Category: Cancer Cure, Liver Disease CureKorean scientists have made a major breakthrough in finding a cure for liver cancer.
Korean scientists have developed a substance they call “TSAHC,” which is to be used for a new medicine that could suppress the protein TM4SF5 known to be a major cause of liver cancer.
Lee Jung-weon, a professor at the College of Medicine of Seoul National University, and Park Ki-hun, a professor of applied life sciences at Gyeongsang National University made the announcement on Monday. Their paper is listed in the online version of world-renowned journal Hepatology, after the research team finished registering patents on TSAHC in Korea and the United States.
“TSAHC has fewer side effects than existing anti-cancer medicine that kills cancer cells, because it selectively suppresses tumor growth and growth of cells in veins that supply nutrition to cancer cells.
“We can expect to generate a great amount of value from the technology that enables mass production of a cancer drug at low cost,” said the team.