Peru: Liver cancer like no other
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third most deadly. It mainly affects men over the age of 40, most often with cirrhosis or hepatitis B or C. But in Peru, it also uncharacteristically affects young people, even children, who do not have the identified related risk factors. Scientists have highlighted a disturbing fact: these patients, with an average age of 25, come from the same geographical area in the Andes.