Liver cancer remains an evolving indication for liver transplantation in the year 2012 as advances are made in patient selection, neoadjuvant treatment and living-donor liver transplantation. Patient survival is improving and, as patient selection and treatment advances, more transplantations can be conducted on patients with liver cancer.
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Lo, CM. Transplantation for liver cancer—more with better results. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 10, 74–76 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2012.257
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