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ReviewWorld journal of hepatology2015

Treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: Steps forward but still a long way to go.

Liat Mlynarsky, Yoram Menachem, Oren Shibolet

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Review in World journal of hepatology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  8. Morphology of tumor and nontumor tissue in liver resection specimens for hepatocellular carcinoma following nivolumab therapy.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2021
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  16. Preoperative prediction of microvascular invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma usingEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Liat MlynarskyLiat Mlynarsky, Yoram Menachem, Oren Shibolet, Liver unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
Yoram MenachemLiat Mlynarsky, Yoram Menachem, Oren Shibolet, Liver unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
Oren ShiboletLiat Mlynarsky, Yoram Menachem, Oren Shibolet, Liver unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common malignancy and the third cause of tumor associated deaths worldwide. HCC incidence rates are increasing in many parts of the world including developing and developed countries. Potentially curative treatments for HCC are resection and liver transplantation, but these are only suitable for patients with small tumors, meeting strict pre-defined criteria, or well-compensated liver disease. Early diagnosis of HCC can be achieved by surveillance of at-risk populations. For patients with non-resectable disease treatments modalities include loco-ablative and systemic therapies. In this review we focus on treatment options in HCC and their allocation. Although significant research is in progress, to this date, the results are unsatisfactory with limited long-term survival. In the fight against this deadly disease, there is still a long way to go.

Indexed as

Hepatocellular carcinomaLiver resectionLiver transplantationLoco-ablative therapiesSorafenib

Identifiers

PMID25848480
PMCPMC4381179

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