Abstract

Progress in multi-disciplinary therapy for primary liver cancer (PLC) increases the 5-year survival rate from 2.6% to 20.6%.However,the overall survival rate failed to increase significantly in the past twenty years because of lack of standardization in treatment of PLC.It is important to establish clinical guidelines which are based on randomized controlled trials,meta analysis,or systematic reviews.This review summarizes the pertinent clinical trials on PLC therapies published before October 2010.The articles were selected by a comprehensive literature search using the terms ‘liver neoplasms',‘ hepatectomy',‘ liver transplantation',‘ transarterial chemoembolization',‘ radiofrequency ablation',‘ percutaneous ethanol injection',‘ radiotherapy',‘ biological therapy',‘ chemotherapy',or ‘ Chinese herbs’. Key words: Hepatocellular carcinoma; Evidencebased medicine; Therapy

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