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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022

Transarterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Why, When, How?

Evgenia Kotsifa, Chrysovalantis Vergadis, Michael Vailas, Nikolaos Machairas, Stylianos Kykalos, Christos Damaskos, Nikolaos Garmpis, Georgios D Lianos, Dimitrios Schizas

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Evgenia KotsifaSecond Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0788-7009
Chrysovalantis VergadisDepartment of Radiology, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5443-1058
Michael VailasFirst Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7357-6532
Nikolaos MachairasSecond Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3239-3905
Stylianos KykalosSecond Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Christos DamaskosSecond Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5454-2564
Nikolaos GarmpisSecond Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9980-0056
Georgios D LianosDepartment of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6106-8178
Dimitrios SchizasFirst Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital of Athens "Laiko", AgiouThoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7046-0112

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy. It is principally associated with liver cirrhosis and chronic liver disease. The major risk factors for the development of HCC include viral infections (HBV, HCV), alcoholic liver disease (ALD,) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The optimal treatment choice is dictated by multiple variables such as tumor burden, liver function, and patient's health status. Surgical resection, transplantation, ablation, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), and systemic therapy are potentially useful treatment strategies. TACE is considered the first-line treatment for patients with intermediate stage HCC. The purpose of this review was to assess the indications, the optimal treatment schedule, the technical factors associated with TACE, and the overall application of TACE as a personalized treatment for HCC.

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cirrhosishepatocellular carcinomaliverneoplasmtransarterial chemoembolization

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PMID35330436
PMCPMC8955120

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