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ReviewCancers2025

Recent Advances in Ablative Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Saad Abu Zahra, Arsalan Nadeem, Ashima Kundu, Nick Gibson, Ali Haggaz, Kent T Sato, Robert J Lewandowski, Andrew C Gordon

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Saad Abu ZahraDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Arsalan NadeemDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6724-2042
Ashima KunduDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Nick GibsonDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Ali HaggazDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Kent T SatoDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Robert J LewandowskiDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5510-788X
Andrew C GordonDepartment of Interventional Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0092-249X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with curative surgical interventions feasible for a minority of patients. This review highlights recent advances in thermal (e.g., radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, and cryoablation) and nonthermal (e.g., ethanol ablation and irreversible electroporation) ablative modalities as curative-intent alternatives to surgery. Evolving applications of transcatheter intra-arterial radioembolization (TARE) with ablative dosimetry will be explored, and histotripsy, an emerging technology, will be introduced.

Indexed as

hepatocellular carcinomaimage-guided ablationlocoregional therapy

Identifiers

PMID41097777
PMCPMC12523968

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