Department of Emergency, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an

Potential candidates for liver resection in liver-confined advanced HCC: a Chinese multicenter observational study

Published in Frontiers in Oncology

Background Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized as symptomatic tumors [performance status (PS) score of 1-2], vascular invasion and extrahepatic spread, but patients with PS1 alone may be eliminated from this stage. Although liver resection is used for liver-confined HCC, its role in patients with PS1 alone remains controversial...