Can metronomic chemotherapy be an alternative to sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma?
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Can metronomic chemotherapy be an alternative to sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma?
Conventional hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC), consisting of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and cisplatin delivered via implanted chemoport every 4 weeks, is a form of regional to systemic chemotherapy to treat unresectable or advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The idea of localized infusion of cytotoxic agents into liver originated from hepatic metastasis of colorectal cancer. It is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2287-2728,2287-285X
DOI: 10.3350/cmh.2017.0107