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Research Reveals Rising Liver Cancer Rates in Mexican Americans miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<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
The research analyzed risk for the disease across more than 30,000 Mexican Americans, finding third-generation Mexican Americans 66% more likely to get liver cancer than the first generation.
In the United States, liver cancer rates have more than tripled since 1980. Some groups, including Latinos, face an even higher risk than the general population-;but researchers do not fully understand why.