The link between eating uncooked fish and liver cancer in South East Asia
An age old preference for eating uncooked fish dishes like “koi-pla” puts people in SE Asia at risk of ingesting trematodes that can cause a type of liver cancer called cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts), say researchers in this week’s PLoS Medicine.
Banchob Sripa (Khon Kaen University) and colleagues discuss the mechanisms by which the food-borne trematode Opisthorchis viverrini (the SE Asian liver fluke) causes cholangiocarcinoma. The fluke is endemic to Thailand, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Vietnam, and Cambodia. In Thailand alone, 6 million people are thought to be infected with the fluke.
Citation: Sripa B, Kaewkes S, Sithithaworn P, Mairiang E, Laha T, et al. (2007) Liver fluke induces cholangiocarcinoma. PLoS Med 4(7): e201.
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CONTACT:
Banchob Sripa
Khon Kaen University
Department of Pathology
Mittrapharb Road Khon Kaen
Khon Kaen, 40002
Thailand
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Paul Brindley
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
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United States of America
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paul.brindley@tulane.edu
Graft-versus-host disease: a surge of developments
Stanley Riddell and Frederick Appelbaum review progress in preventing graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for malignancies or other life-threatening blood diseases.
Citation: Riddell SR, Appelbaum FR (2007) Graft versus-host disease: A surge of developments. PLoS Med 4(7): e198.
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