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SUBMITTER: Brar G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6202741 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brar Gagandeep G Greten Tim F TF Brown Zachary J ZJ
Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology 20181025
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide and is expected to rise. Patients with early-stage disease may have a good prognosis with a 5-year survival rate of greater than 70%. However, the majority of patients are diagnosed with late-stage disease with a dismal overall survival rate of less than 16%. Therefore, there is a great need for advances in the treatment of advanced HCC, which for approximately the past decade, has been sorafenib. Immunother ...[more]