Despite the advances aimed at preventing liver cancer new research has revealed rising rates of the disease around the world. The findings were published early online in CANCER a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS). To obtain trends and estimates of liver cancer by age sex region and cause Xingdong Chen MD PhD of Fudan University in China and his colleagues examined 1990-2017 data from the Global Burden of Disease Study pertaining to 195 countries and territories. Globally liver cancer cases diagnosed before the age of 30 years decreased from 17381 in 1990 to 14661 in 2017 but