STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Platinum-based chemotherapy in childhood causes mutations that age the liver Platinum chemotherapy aged the liver cells of treated children, making them look more like adult liver cells and possibly raising the long-term risk of new tumors https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/10/childhood-chemotherapy-cisplatin-carboplatin-new-study-liver-impact/ statnews.com