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SUBMITTER: Shaaban S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4419609 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shaaban Saad S Negm Amr A Ibrahim Elsayed E EE Elrazak Ahmed A AA
Oncology reviews 20140301 1
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a dreaded malignancy that every year causes half a million deaths worldwide. Being an aggressive cancer, its incidence exceeds 700,000 new cases per year worldwide with a median survival of 6-8 months. Despite advances in prognosis and early detection, effective HCC chemoprevention or treatment strategies are still lacking, therefore its dismal survival rate remains largely unchanged. This review will characterize currently available chemotherapeutic drugs used ...[more]