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Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has evolved over the past few decades with the advancement of technology and improved imaging. Radiotherapy can offer high local control rates in unresectable HCC, including cases with major vascular involvement, and can pro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31293919 http://dx.doi.org/10.14218/JCTH.2018.00060 |
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description | The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has evolved over the past few decades with the advancement of technology and improved imaging. Radiotherapy can offer high local control rates in unresectable HCC, including cases with major vascular involvement, and can provide a modality to help bridge patients to potentially curative resection or transplantation. In metastatic cases, radiotherapy can provide good palliation. This review focuses on the common radiotherapy treatment modalities used for HCC, provides outcome comparisons of these radiotherapy techniques to outcomes with other treatment modalities for HCC, and highlights the discrepancy of the role of radiotherapy in HCC amongst the current available treatment guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-66098472019-07-10 Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Chen, Chien Pong J Clin Transl Hepatol Review Article The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has evolved over the past few decades with the advancement of technology and improved imaging. Radiotherapy can offer high local control rates in unresectable HCC, including cases with major vascular involvement, and can provide a modality to help bridge patients to potentially curative resection or transplantation. In metastatic cases, radiotherapy can provide good palliation. This review focuses on the common radiotherapy treatment modalities used for HCC, provides outcome comparisons of these radiotherapy techniques to outcomes with other treatment modalities for HCC, and highlights the discrepancy of the role of radiotherapy in HCC amongst the current available treatment guidelines. XIA & HE Publishing Inc. 2019-05-27 2019-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6609847/ /pubmed/31293919 http://dx.doi.org/10.14218/JCTH.2018.00060 Text en © 2019 Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article has been published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits noncommercial unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the following statement is provided. “This article has been published in Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology at DOI: 10.14218/JCTH.2018.00060 and can also be viewed on the Journal’s website at http://www.jcthnet.com”. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Chen, Chien Pong Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title | Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_full | Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_short | Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
title_sort | role of radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31293919 http://dx.doi.org/10.14218/JCTH.2018.00060 |
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