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During any inflammation, the hepatocytes activate a protein, STAT 3, which in turn increases the production of other proteins called SAA. The SAA proteins are responsible for making the \u201csoil\u201d for the cancer cells to \u201cseed\u201d, thereby giving rise to the \u201cseed-and-soil\u201d hypothesis. The scientists had conducted the study on mouse models suffering from the most common type of pancreatic cancer. They also observed that genetically deleting STAT 3 reduced the susceptibility of the liver towards cancer. The researchers are looking into therapies that would target hepatocytes to treat lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>To know more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/03\/190306131418.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here now<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496?action=genpdf&amp;id=21496\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img data-src=\"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous studies have already shown that among all the organs in the body that are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8169,"featured_media":21505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1579],"tags":[1590],"ppma_author":[1908],"class_list":["post-21496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enago-academy-creatives","tag-researchbriefs"],"better_featured_image":{"id":21505,"alt_text":"cancer","caption":"","description":"When cancer starts spreading, the liver shows the highest susceptibility to it. 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