Ten-Year Outcomes of Liver Transplant and Downstaging for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

National guidelines on transplant selection have adopted successful downstaging to within Milan criteria (MC) as a viable option for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) before liver transplant (LT). Recurrence of HCC after LT carries a poor prognosis, and treatment modalities remain challenging.Objective To establish the 10-year outcomes of patients with HCC after LT in …

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Molecular signatures of long-term hepatocellular carcinoma risk in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Predicting liver cancer riskNonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) raises the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but this risk can be difficult to quantify and disease onset can still be difficult to catch early. Fujiwara et al. developed hepatic transcriptome and serum secretome–derived signatures to predict NAFLD-related HCC in patients over 15 years of observation. …

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Safety and Efficacy of amplitude-modulated radiofrequency electromagnetic fields in advanced #hepatocellular carcinoma

Importance: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Despite the recent approval of several new agents, long-term disease control remains elusive for most patients. Administration of 27.12 MHz radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) by means of a spoon-shaped antenna (TheraBionic P1 device) placed on the anterior part of the tongue …

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#EGFR activation limits the response of #liver cancer to lenvatinib

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)—the most common form of liver cancer—is an aggressive malignancy with few effective treatment options1. Lenvatinib is a small-molecule inhibitor of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases that is used for the treatment of patients with advanced HCC, but this drug has only limited clinical benefit2. Here, using a kinome-centred CRISPR–Cas9 genetic screen, we show …

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