Researchers from the Hepatology Program of the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA) of the University of Navarra have obtained a financial aid from the association Española contra el Cáncer (AECC) to improve the diagnosis and treatment of biliary cancer. This is one of the two projects selected by the Scientific Foundation of the AECC in its call for projects of research in Childhood and Rare Cancer AECC 2017.

The AECC-funded project , which is endowed with 300,000 euros, is aimed at studying multidisciplinary biliary cancer from a diagnostic, pathological and therapeutic point of view. "It is a very aggressive tumor subject , of increasing incidence and for which no effective treatments are available. The lack of specific and sufficiently sensitive biological markers complicates its early diagnosis, so the disease is detected in advanced stages", explains Dr. Matías Ávila, director of the Hepatology Program at CIMA and co-responsible for project. work Dr. Carmen Berasain and Dr. Maite García, from the Hepatology Program at CIMA, with the participation of Dr. Jesús Urman, from the Navarra Hospital Complex, partnership . Coordinated by Jesús M. Bañales Asurmendi, from high school of research Biodonostia, the consortium is integrated by the teams of Dr. José Juan García Marín, from the University of Salamanca, and Dr. Mª Luz Martínez Chantar, from CIC bioGUNE. All of them are part of research center Biomedica en network at area of Liver and Digestive Diseases (CIBERehd).