Interventional therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma
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Interventional therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third most common cause of cancer-related death. In the past few years, staging systems have been developed that enable patients to be stratified into treatment algorithms in a multidisciplinary setting. Several of these treatments involve minimally invasive image-guided therapy that can be performed by radiologists.
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Imaging
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1470-7330
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2012.0011