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Recent research has found that mutations in the human EZH2 and CCND1 genes may be potential novel biomarkers for liver cancer. The tumour mutation burden (TMB) also appears to be an important prognostic factor and affects patient survival.

Treatment with the novel, selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α modulator (SPPARMα) pemafibrate appears to produce a significant reduction in liver stiffness but not in liver fat content in patients with high-risk nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to the results of a phase II trial.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Singapore has changed markedly throughout the last decade, with patients being diagnosed at an increasingly older age and cryptogenic cirrhosis/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) becoming a more important aetiology, according to a recent study.

Collagen proportionate area (CPA) is a good predictor of long-term mortality in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) patients regardless of their abstinence from alcohol, a recent study has found. However, CPA seems to have no clear interaction with short-term mortality.