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Targeted Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Identification of oncogenes that mediate tumor progression, and trials that monitor their products as biomarkers, might lead to personalized therapy; reagents that interfere with signaling pathways required for HCC progression might be used to treat selected populations, and thereby maximize the efficacy and cost benefit.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 402 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sorafenib & Targeted therapy.

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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.

EASL-EORTC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatocellular carcinoma European Association for the Study of the Liver ⇑ , European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

TL;DR: The purpose of this document is to assist physicians, patients, health-care providers, and health-policy makers from Europe and worldwide in the decision-making process according to evidencebased data.
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Pathogenic mechanisms in HBV- and HCV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

TL;DR: In this paper, a review outlines pathogenic mechanisms that seem to be common to both hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus and suggest innovative approaches to the prevention and treatment of HCC.
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Mechanisms of HBV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma

TL;DR: HBV-related HCCs may arise on non-cirrhotic livers, further supporting the notion that HBV plays a direct role in liver transformation by triggering both common and etiology specific oncogenic pathways in addition to stimulating the host immune response and driving liver chronic necro-inflammation.
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Molecular Targeted Therapies in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

TL;DR: Molecular targeted therapy with a focus on angiogenesis, growth signals, and mitotic abnormalities, as well as the promising concepts of "cancer stemness" and "synthetic lethality" for the strategy of targeted therapy are summarized.
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Gefitinib, an EGFR inhibitor, prevents hepatocellular carcinoma development in the rat liver with cirrhosis.

TL;DR: The blockade of EGFR activity by gefitinib has an antitumoral effect on the development of HCC in DEN‐exposed rats, suggesting that it may provide benefit for the chemoprevention of H CC.
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Phase 2 study of erlotinib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

TL;DR: The proportion of hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with erlotinib who were alive and progression-free (PFS) at 16 weeks of continuous treatment was determined.
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Molecular classification and novel targets in hepatocellular carcinoma: recent advancements.

TL;DR: A new class of genomic information, microRNA dysregulation and epigenetic alterations, will provide insight for more precise understanding of disease mechanism and expand the opportunity of biomarker/therapeutic target discovery that will eventually enable personalized management of HCC.
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Systematic Overview of Cost-Utility Assessments in Oncology

TL;DR: The cost-utility literature in oncology is not large but is rapidly expanding, and there remains much room for improvement in the methodological rigor with which utilities are measured.
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