Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in some areas of the world. The prognosis of HCC patients is generally very poor with a 5-year survival rate of less than 5%. Therapeutic strategies include surgery (resection or liver transplantation) and non-surgical interventions, such as percutaneous ethanol injection or radiofrequency thermal ablation as well as transarterial embolization or chemoembolization. Therefore, the development and evaluation of novel HCC treatment strategies such as the use of antiangiogenic, antiproliferative or antiinflammatoric drugs, immune therapeuticals, gene therapy and internal or external radiation are of utmost importance. This review should give an overview of possible alternative therapies in HCC treatment.

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