Liver cancer rates are rising with each successive generation of Mexican Americans: Study
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Research Reveals Rising Liver Cancer Rates in Mexican Americans
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<p style="text-align:start">In the United States, liver cancer rates have more than tripled since 1980 and Latino face an even higher risk than the general population—but researchers do not fully understand why. A study were just published in the journal <a href="http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/cncr.35000">Cancer</a> from the <a href="https://keck.usc.edu/">Keck School of Medicine of USC</a>, funded by the National Cancer Institute, has shed new light on those disparities. Researchers found that among Mexican Americans, liver cancer risk rises the longer a person’s family has lived in the U.S. That increased risk primarily affected men. Compared to the first generation, second-generation Mexican Americans were 37% more likely to develop liver cancer and third-generation Mexican Americans were 66% more likely to get the disease. Metabolic syndrome (which includes obesity and