Liver Inflammation and Hepato-Pancreatic Biliary Cancers (HPBCs)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Research of Cancer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2025) | Viewed by 192
Special Issue Editor
Interests: liver inflammation; hepato-pancreatic biliary cancers; epidemiological aspects; basic aspects; clinical aspects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic hepatitis virus infection (hepatitis B virus, HBV; hepatitis C virus, HCV) causes chronic inflammation in the liver, which greatly increases the risk of developing liver cancer (HCC). Chronic hepatitis infection causes genetic mutations in hepatocytes that progress to cancer via cirrhosis, as the latter causes liver cell fibrosis and promotes cancer development. There is also epidemiological evidence of chronic hepatitis inflammation increasing the risk of biliary tract cancers. For hepatitis and pancreatic cancer, common risk factors (e.g., alcohol consumption and obesity) have also been reported to increase risk. We would like to provide an update on the associations between liver inflammation and hepato-pancreatic biliary cancers (HPBCs) from epidemiological, clinical, and basic medical aspects.
Prof. Dr. Tsutomu Masaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liver inflammation
- hepato-pancreatic biliary cancers
- basic study
- clinical study
- epidemiological study
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