Chemotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: current status and future perspectives

M Ikeda, C Morizane, M Ueno… - Japanese journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Chemotherapy is one of the most important treatment modalities for advanced
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). On the basis of the results of two pivotal Phase III placebo …

Hepatocellular carcinoma in the era of immunotherapy

HW Sim, J Knox - Current Problems in Cancer, 2018 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignancy which usually emerges on a
background of chronic liver disease. Unfortunately, with contemporary management …

Regorafenib for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who progressed on sorafenib treatment (RESORCE): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 …

J Bruix, S Qin, P Merle, A Granito, YH Huang, G Bodoky… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background There are no systemic treatments for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) whose disease progresses during sorafenib treatment. We aimed to assess the …

Tivantinib for second-line treatment of MET-high, advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (METIV-HCC): a final analysis of a phase 3, randomised, placebo-controlled …

L Rimassa, E Assenat, M Peck-Radosavljevic… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Tivantinib (ARQ 197), a selective, oral MET inhibitor, improved
overall survival and progression-free survival compared with placebo in a randomised …

Outcomes of sequential treatment with sorafenib followed by regorafenib for HCC: additional analyses from the phase III RESORCE trial

RS Finn, P Merle, A Granito, YH Huang, G Bodoky… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims The RESORCE trial showed that regorafenib improves overall survival
(OS) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma progressing during sorafenib treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic therapy for intermediate and advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: Sorafenib and beyond

JL Raoul, M Kudo, RS Finn, J Edeline, M Reig… - Cancer treatment …, 2018 - Elsevier
The hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment landscape changed a decade ago, with
sorafenib demonstrating survival benefit in the first-line setting and becoming the first …

Gut roundtable meeting paper: selected recent advances in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Gerbes, F Zoulim, H Tilg, JF Dufour, J Bruix… - Gut, 2018 - gut.bmj.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks number three among the most frequent causes of
death from solid tumors worldwide. With obesity and fatty liver diseases as risk factors on the …

Hepatocellular carcinoma: therapeutic guidelines and medical treatment

M Kudo, F Trevisani, GK Abou-Alfa, L Rimassa - Liver cancer, 2017 - karger.com
Western and Eastern perspectives on therapeutic guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) have many commonalities but may also differ in certain aspects, as described in this …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming of central carbon metabolism in cancer stem cells

TL Wong, N Che, S Ma - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer metabolism has been studied for years and adopted in the clinic for monitoring
disease progression and therapy response. Despite our growing knowledge of a distinctly …

A phase 1/1B trial of ADI‐PEG 20 plus nab‐paclitaxel and gemcitabine in patients with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma

MA Lowery, KH Yu, DP Kelsen, JJ Harding… - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND ADI‐PEG 20 is a pegylated form of the arginine‐depleting enzyme arginine
deiminase. Normal cells synthesize arginine with the enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase …