Erschienen in:
24.06.2017 | Review Article
Hepatocellular Cancer: Is Recurrence Inevitable?
verfasst von:
Levent Doganay
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Ausgabe 3/2017
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Excerpt
Hepatocellular cancer (HCC) ranks as the sixth common cancer in the world [
1]. Yearly, it is estimated that more than 700,000 people are diagnosed with HCC. However, when it comes to mortality, it is the second cause [
1,
2]. More than half of the HCC patients are from East Asia and the most prevalent liver disease causing HCC is chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection there. The other underlying disorders are chronic hepatitis C infection, alcohol abuse, and metabolic syndrome. Tobacco smoking and dietary aflatoxin exposure are additional confounding factors [
3]. …