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SUBMITTER: de Baere T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6095432 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Baere Thierry T Tselikas Lambros L Deschamps Frederic F Boige Valerie V Ducreux Michel M Hollebecque Antoine A
Hepatic oncology 20160323 2
Conventional transarterial chemoembolization (c-TACE) was validated in 2002 for intermediate stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recent improvements in overall survival after c-TACE in HCC is linked to both better patient selection, and improvement in treatment technologies: catheter, image guidance and new drug delivery platforms. Drug eluting beads (DEBs) demonstrated a benefit over c-TACE in pharmacokinetic studies; however, two randomized studies comparing c-TACE and DEB-TACE demonstrated ...[more]