University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences Jul 10 2025 A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center may help explain why certain liver tumors return quickly after thermal ablation, a widely used minimally-invasive, image-guided technique that kills cancer cells by applying intense heat through a needle-like probe. The team found that the sugar-binding protein Galectin-1 (Gal-1) plays a critical role in helping hepatocellular carcinoma, the