Nintendo president s death highlights risk of rare cancer type.

Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata died over the weekend of bile duct cancer, 13 months after he underwent surgery to remove a growth from his biliary tract. "The ability to study the cancer mechanism in mini organs in tissue culture will advance diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of liver and bile duct cancers", said Elizabeth Vincan, head of the cancer biology laboratory at the University of Melbourne. [Extracted from the article]

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