Selecting an optimal staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma: Comparison of 5 currently used prognostic models

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3006-3014

  Hsu, Chia Yang ^a,b   Hsia, Cheng Yuan ^a,b   Huang, Yi Hsiang ^a,b   Su, Chien Wei ^a,b   Lin, Han Chieh ^a,b   Lee, Pui Ching ^b   Loong, Che Chuan ^a,b   Chiang, Jen Huey ^a,b   Huo, Teh Ia ^a,b   Lee, Shou Dong ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; Cancer of the Liver Italian Program; Child Turcotte Pugh; Cirrhosis; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Japan Integrated Scoring; Tokyo score; Tumor node metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77954016931     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25044     Document Type: Article

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