作者: James J. Harding , Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa
DOI: 10.1002/CNCR.28850
关键词:
摘要: Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignancy with poor prognosis. Sorafenib the only systemic therapy known to improve overall survival of patients advanced disease. The clinical benefit sorafenib modest and mechanistic basis for its activity unknown. Four phase 3 trials have failed on in frontline setting no agent has been shown impact outcomes after failure. Several factors contributed this recent stall drug development but new approaches hold promise currently are being investigated. This review will focus current pipeline experimental therapeutics hepatocellular shed light scientific limitations that hamper advancement therapies disease, ways around it.