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- Title
Prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Validation and ranking of established staging-systems in a large western HCC-cohort.
- Authors
op den Winkel, Mark; Nagel, Dorothea; Sappl, Julia; op den Winkel, Philip; Lamerz, Rolf; Zech, Christoph J; Straub, Gundula; Nickel, Thomas; Rentsch, Markus; Stieber, Petra; Göke, Burkhard; Kolligs, Frank T
- Abstract
HCC is diagnosed in approximately half a million people per year, worldwide. Staging is a more complex issue than in most other cancer entities and, mainly due to unique geographic characteristics of the disease, no universally accepted staging system exists to date. Focusing on survival rates we analyzed demographic, etiological, clinical, laboratory and tumor characteristics of HCC-patients in our institution and applied the common staging systems. Furthermore we aimed at identifying the most suitable of the current staging systems for predicting survival.
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 10, pe45066
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0045066