Research advances in targeted therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma / 临床肝胆病杂志

ABSTRACT

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors. Due to the insidious onset, poor prognosis, and lack of specificity of HCC, most patients have reached the advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. Conventional treatment methods, such as surgical resection, liver transplantation, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, have limited therapeutic effects and fail to bring significant benefits to patients. With the improvement of science and technology and medical level in recent years, targeted therapy drugs have gradually entered people’s vision due to the breakthroughs in the treatment of HCC and thus bring new hope to patients with advanced HCC. Targeted drugs have attracted wide attention due to good molecular selectivity, targeted killing of tumor cells, and protection of normal tissue. This article reviews the research advances in targeted therapy for HCC.