Liver Cancer
Reports advance knowledge in liver cancer research
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 5th, 2005
Study 1: The predictive value of CLIP, Okuda, TNM and JIS staging systems for liver cancer was evaluated.
According to a study from Taiwan, "An accurate staging system is required to assess hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients in order to benefit from hepatic resection before surgery. Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP) score was considered to be better than the Okuda staging system to predict survival. Japan Integrated Staging Score (JIS score) includes tumor, nodes, metastases (TNM) stage and Child-Pugh grade as a new staging system for HCC....
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