Franco Borzio

TL;DR: BCLC C stage does not identify patients homogeneous enough to be allocated to a single stage, and new patient‐tailored therapeutic indications are needed.

TL;DR: Contrast‐enhanced Doppler US is a noninvasive, very sensitive technique in differentiating malignant and premalignant lesions from nonmalignant focal lesions in the liver.

TL;DR: The survival improvement observed until 2001 was due to an increasing number of tumours diagnosed in early stages and in a background of compensated cirrhosis, and a growing and better use of locoregional treatments, and national policies aimed at implementing surveillance programmes for at risk patients.

TL;DR: Hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinomas have a greater aggressiveness than hepatitis C virus- related tumors, which becomes clinically manifest once they have reached an advanced stage.

TL;DR: Patients with very early" HCC were very few in this analysis and in most instances they were not treated with the treatment suggested as the most appropriate by the AASLD guidelines and the type of treatment had no impact on survival, even though the number of patients was relatively low.