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Evidence-Based Diagnosis, Staging, and Treatment of Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

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Studies now aim to identify molecular markers and imaging techniques that can detect patients with HCC at earlier stages and better predict their survival time and response to treatment.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2016-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liver function & Liver cancer.

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Unexpected high rate of early tumor recurrence in patients with HCV-related HCC undergoing interferon-free therapy

TL;DR: The data show an unexpected high rate and pattern of tumor recurrence coinciding with HCV clearance and, although based in a very small cohort of patients, should be taken as a note of caution and prime a large scale assessment that exceeds the individual investigators capacity.
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Liver macrophages in tissue homeostasis and disease

TL;DR: Novel findings regarding the origin, classification and function of hepatic macrophages are highlighted, and their divergent roles in the healthy and diseased liver are discussed.
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Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012.

TL;DR: The GLOBOCAN series of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as mentioned in this paper provides estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 27 major cancers and for all cancers combined for 2012.
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EASL-EORTC clinical practice guidelines : management of hepatocellular carcinoma

TL;DR: The following Clinical Practice Guidelines will give up-to-date advice for the clinical management of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, as well as providing an in-depth review of all the relevant data leading to the conclusions herein.
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Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices

TL;DR: Emergency ligation of bleeding oesophageal varices using the Milnes Walker technique was performed in 38 patients, and in patients with good preoperative liver function this rose to 71% and the simple scoring system for grading the severity of disturbance of liver function was found to be of value in predicting the outcome of surgery.
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Management of hepatocellular carcinoma: An update

TL;DR: The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) practice guidelines on the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were updated in 2010 as discussed by the authors.
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