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Advanced Liver Disease Main Forums => Advanced Liver Disease => Topic started by: Hep Editors on January 16, 2018, 10:31:40 am

Title: Fatty Liver Disease Is Linked to Liver, Colorectal and Breast Cancer
Post by: Hep Editors on January 16, 2018, 10:31:40 am
People with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have a higher risk not only of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, the most common form of liver cancer) but also colorectal and breast cancer among men and women, respectively.

Publishing their findings in the Journal of Hepatology, researchers studied data on 25,947 Koreans, 8,721 (33.6 percent) of whom had NAFLD. The overall group was followed for a median 7.5 years, or a cumulative 164,671 years.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/fatty-liver-disease-linked-liver-colorectal-breast-cancer