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SUBMITTER: Chen L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4686130 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Lumin L Sun Jihong J Yang Xiaoming X
Cancer letters 20151022 1
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is widely accepted as a first-line interventional oncology approach for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and has the advantages of high treatment efficacy and low complication risk. Local control rates equivalent to hepatic resection can be reached by RFA alone when treating small HCCs (<2 cm) in favorable locations. However, local tumor progression and recurrence rates with RFA monotherapy increase sharply when treating larger lesions (>3 cm). To address this clinica ...[more]