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Ten Years Later: Liver Cancer Treatment Reevaluated
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New treatment options for some liver cancers may mean that liver transplants are fading out of style.
Ten years ago, JNCI reported that liver transplants were becoming the treatment option of choice for patients diagnosed with an early stage of a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [See JNCI, 1996;88:632633.]. Today some scientists believe that the preferred treatment method is shifting again. They suggest that therapies that destroy tumor cells without surgery