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"I see the liver cancer heatmap being used as a source of networking between institutions and as a way to help patients find a medical facility to help navigate their care closer to home."

By Diane Mapes For the immunocompromised and those with disease, social distancing and uncertainty are a way of life. Daily walks, gratitude, and dancing help. You’re washing your hands like crazy. Staying six feet away from people with the sniffles. You don’t know if it’s safe to hug your friends or family, or go to work, or what. You don’t even know if you’ll be alive in a year. It’s scary. …

Though the incidence of AIDS-defining cancers has decreased with the use of antiretroviral therapy, numerous studies suggest that non-AIDS-defining cancers (cancers not previously associated with HIV and AIDS) appear to be increasing in incidence.

Liver cancer, which includes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the second leading cause of cancer-related death globally, responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide each year.