Clinical course in hepatocellular carcinoma may be very different. We prospectively
evaluated 96 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma unsuitable for radical therapy to …

Purpose: Several scoring systems to evaluate patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
exist. A good scoring system should provide information on prognosis and guide therapeutic …

The liver is an estrogen responsive organ. Clinically, estrogens may play a role in the
induction of liver tumors and, experimentally, estrogens are involved in the control of …

Variant estrogen receptors may be found in hepatocellular carcinoma and may influence its
natural history. Because it is not known whether their occurrence is an early or a late event …

Background/Aims: In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, prediction of survival is difficult.
The aim of this prospective study was to provide a simple classification for predicting survival …

BACKGROUND Estrogen receptor‐α (ERα) is variably expressed in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) and is believed to be correlated with prognosis and survival. Recently …

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate prognostic factors at
presentation and the survival of North American patients with hepatocellular carcinoma …

Background. In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, surgical resection may offer a
chance of cure. However, tumor recurrence is not infrequent after resection. Methods. To …

Primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy with a dismal prognosis;
new modalities of treatment as alternatives to surgery have been developed for …

A multivariate analysis of data from 90 patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
was performed using Cox's regression model to identify factors possibly affecting their …