PRACTICAL ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ›› 2015, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (3): 279-283.doi: 10.11904/j.issn.1002-3070.2015.03.020

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Progress on TACE treatment for primary liver cancer exceeding Milan criteria

LIU Jia,LIU Ruibao   

  1. Department of Intervention,The Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Harbin Medical University,Harbin 150081,China
  • Received:2014-12-24 Online:2015-06-28 Published:2015-06-25

Abstract:

Primary liver cancer(PLC)is one of the most invasive malignant tumors in the clinics.The PLC within Milan criteria can be cured by liver transplantation or liver resection.However,PLC exceeding Milan criteria has been a question for us to overcome all the time.In recent years,transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TACE)and its combination therapy for PLC exceeding Milan criteria have made some breakthrough.A great deal of literatures have confirmed that TACE and its combined therapy for PLC exceeding Milan criteria can improve the survival rate obviously,it also contains many advantages,such as low cost,safe,painless,minimally invasive,repetitive operation and so on.The progress of TACE for PLC exceeding Milan criteria in recent years is summarized in this paper.

Key words: Exceeding milan criteria, Primary liver cancer, TACE

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