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ArticleHepatobiliary surgery and nutrition2023

Proton beam therapy for downstaging hepatocellular carcinoma with lobar portal vein tumor thrombosis to living donor liver transplantation.

Chao-Long Chen, Leona Bettina P Dungca, Chee-Chien Yong, Itsuko Chih-Yi Chen, Yu-Fan Cheng, Jen-Yu Cheng, Yen-Yang Chen

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Article in Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Proton beam therapy versus trans-arterial chemoembolization for BCLC stage B hepatocellular carcinoma-a propensity-matched analysis.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Chao-Long ChenLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Leona Bettina P DungcaLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Chee-Chien YongLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Itsuko Chih-Yi ChenLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Yu-Fan ChengLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Jen-Yu ChengLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.
Yen-Yang ChenLiver Transplantation Center, Department of Hematology-Oncology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

downstaging therapyhepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT)Proton beam therapy (PBT)

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PMID38115927
PMCPMC10727813

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