The efficacy of drug-eluting bead or conventional transarterial chemoembolization plus apatinib for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus

Abstract Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with apatinib has been used for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and the efficacy is good. The study was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of drug-eluting bead TACE plus apatinib (D-TACE-A) with conventional TACE plus apatin...

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Main Authors: Weihua Zhang, Linxia Wu, Lei Chen, Tao Sun, Yanqiao Ren, Bo Sun, Licheng Zhu, Ping Han, Chuansheng Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09609-8