New data reveals significant increase in highly lethal type of liver cancer, with over half of NHS patients not given any of the treatments currently available
At the start of this year’s Liver Cancer Awareness Month, senior doctors in the NHS are joining cancer patients and their families in supporting a call to Rethink Liver Cancer in response to research findings published in a new White Paper by UK charity, AMMF - The Cholangiocarcinoma Charity [1].
British fashion designer Dame Zandra Rhodes is among the patients lending AMMF their support, having been diagnosed herself with cholangiocarcinoma (also referred to as bile duct cancer or CCA) - a little-known primary liver cancer with an increasing incidence and one of the worst prognoses of any cancer.
The new research findings are the result of a four-year study of NHS data on circa 50,000 patients [2]. Commissioned and funded by AMMF - the only charity in the UK solely dedicated to...
