No Touch Left Approach for Right Lobe Advanced HCC To decrease HCC recurrence

The Effect of BCAA in the Course of HCC Recurrence

191 Received March 12, 2013; revised and accepted July 5, 2013. Published online July 26, 2013; doi: 10.1620/tjem.230.191. Correspondence: Yasuteru Kondo, Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] Supplementation of Branched-Chain Amino Acids Maintains the Serum Album...

Multidisciplinary approach for HCC patients: hepatology for the oncologists.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a complex and heterogeneous disease, often associated with underlying conditions, like cirrhosis or other relevant co-morbidities that worsen the prognosis and make the clinical management more challenging. Current recommendations emphasize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach for the management of HCC patients and stress the crucial role of careful p...

Strategies for HCC target discovery

"Tear-drop shaped" HCC.

In September 2001, during follow-up at our outpatient liver unit we detected by ultrasound a hypervascular mass adjacent to the VI hepatic segment in a 78-year-old HCV-positive cirrhotic woman. Subsequently abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed an infiltrative vascularized nodule (3.5 cm in diameter) at the lower border of the VI hepatic segment and magnetic resonance imaging showed a “te...

Interventional Radiology and Hcc

Hepatocellular cancer (hcc) is the 2nd most frequent cause of cancer-related death in men and the 6th in women1. In 2008, the number of new liver cancer cases was estimated to be 748,300 worldwide, and 695,900 deaths were attributed to liver cancer that same year1. Overall, liver transplantation, surgical resection, and locoregional therapies are the treatment options for hcc. However, only a s...