Circulating Hepatocellular Cells are a Bad Prognostic Factor for HCC Patients.

Yang LiuYue-Ru WangLong WangLin-Juan XunGuang-Hui DingLe Yao

Published in: Hepato-gastroenterology (2016)

The presence of AFP mRNA in peripheral blood may be an indicator of CHCCs, which might predict hematogenous spreading metastasis in patients with HCC and may be as a bad prognostic factor for HCC patients.

Keyphrases

prognostic factors
end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
peripheral blood
newly diagnosed
induced apoptosis
oxidative stress
signaling pathway
cell proliferation
endoplasmic reticulum stress