کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3980265 1257422 2010 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Approach to radiation therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی تومور شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Approach to radiation therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the 5th most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer-related death in the world with an estimated incidence of proximately 1 million new cases annually, has becoming a major global health problem in the world. A variety of treatment modalities, including resection, liver transplantation, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), local ablative therapy and radiation therapy (RT) have been reported. Although partial hepatectomy and liver transplantation may offer the best chance of cure, only 15% of the patients have the chance to be treated by surgery when diagnosed. The effectiveness of systemic chemotherapy for HCC has been minimal, and local ablative therapy may offer comparable survival in patients with small HCC and preserve liver function. Recently, with developments in radiotherapy techniques, radiotherapy has been shown to play potential roles in a wide spectrum of HCC and to become more important so that it is necessary to evaluate the effect of radiotherapy in treatment of HCC. This paper is aiming mainly at the current radiation therapy strategies and their current advances, the optimal radiation therapy strategies will complement the current treatments and improve the treatment efficiency.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cancer Treatment Reviews - Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 157–163
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