Abstract

Hepatoma Research is an open access journal and focuses on all topics related to hepatoma. The following articles are especially welcome: pathogenesis, clinical examination and early diagnosis of hepatoma, complications of hepatoma, and their preventions and treatments, etc.

Highlights

  • Primary liver cancer (PLC), referred in this work as liver cancer, includes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) originating from hepatocytes, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) originating from cholangiocytes, and combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma (CHC)[1]

  • The 5-year overall survival (OS) rate of 0/A HCC patients staged by the Barcelona clinical staging of liver cancer (BCLC) criteria who received radical treatment ranged from 69.0% to 86.2%, and the 5-year OS rate of those patients who underwent surgical resection was 56.9%[3]

  • Risk stratification of HCC in patients with NAFLD and alcoholic liver disease Less importance is given to the screening and surveillance of HCC in patients with NAFLD, especially at the non-cirrhotic stage than in hepatitis B virus (HBV)- or hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients

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Introduction

Primary liver cancer (PLC), referred in this work as liver cancer, includes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) originating from hepatocytes, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) originating from cholangiocytes, and combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma (CHC)[1]. Patients with cirrhosis and chronic HBV or HCV infection who have not received antiviral therapy or acquired SVR are the major high-risk populations of HCC in China.

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