Genetic landscape and biomarkers of hepatocellular carcinoma

J Zucman-Rossi, A Villanueva, JC Nault, JM Llovet - Gastroenterology, 2015 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has emerged as a major cause of cancer-related death. Its
mortality has increased in Western populations, with a minority of patients diagnosed at …

Advances in targeted therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma in the genomic era

JM Llovet, A Villanueva, A Lachenmayer… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2015 - nature.com
Mortality owing to liver cancer has increased in the past 20 years, and the latest estimates
indicate that the global health burden of this disease will continue to grow. Most patients with …

Potential molecular, cellular and microenvironmental mechanism of sorafenib resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma

J Chen, R Jin, J Zhao, J Liu, H Ying, H Yan, S Zhou… - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Sorafenib, an orally-available kinase inhibitor, is the only standard clinical treatment against
advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. However, development of resistance to sorafenib has …

Molecular classification of hepatocellular carcinoma: potential therapeutic implications

N Goossens, X Sun, Y Hoshida - Hepatic oncology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Genomic profiling of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumors has elucidated recurrent
molecular aberrations common or specific to disease etiology, patient race or geographic …

Molecular targeted therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma: past, present and future

M Stotz, A Gerger, J Haybaeck, T Kiesslich… - Anticancer …, 2015 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive tumor and the sixth most common form of
cancer worldwide. Surgery is the gold-standard treatment for local disease and often …

[HTML][HTML] Sorafenib-based combined molecule targeting in treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

JJ Gao, ZY Shi, JF Xia, Y Inagaki… - World journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sorafenib is the only and standard systematic chemotherapy drug for treatment of advanced
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at the current stage. Although sorafenib showed survival …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy in liver cancer

I Labgaa, A Villanueva - Discovery medicine, 2015 - discoverymedicine.com
Liver cancer has become the second cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Most
patients are still diagnosed at intermediate or advanced stage, where potentially curative …

Novel drugs in clinical development for hepatocellular carcinoma

O Waidmann, J Trojan - Expert opinion on investigational drugs, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Sorafenib is the only systemic drug approved for the treatment of advanced
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Within recent years, several investigational agents mainly …

New molecular therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

S Torrecilla, JM Llovet - Clinics and Research in Hepatology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major health problem. Mortality owing to liver cancer
has increased in the past 20 years, with recent studies reporting an incidence of 780,000 …

MEK 1/2 inhibitors in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

A Facciorusso, R Licinio, BI Carr, A Di Leo… - Expert Review of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Sorafenib is the only approved systemic treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
patients and all the recently published randomized controlled trials on new systemic drugs …