New tool helps predict recurring liver cancer

Chinese scientists and their counterparts from Singapore have developed a highly accurate scoring system to predict the risk of recurrence for a serious form of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC.

The scientists achieved an accuracy rate of 82.2 percent, the international academic journal Nature reported.

The scoring method, called the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Spatial System, or TIMES, is the first tool in the world to integrate spatial immune information that can be used to predict the cancer's recurrence.