... to in the content or advertisements. Laparoscopic hepatectomy Liver resection Hepatocellular carcinoma Elderly patients Liver cancer At present, the proportion of elderly patients is increasing annually worldwide because of the longer life expectancy of the population [ 1 ]. Aging itself...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. History Liver cancer Liver surgery In medical circles, the practical anatomy and surgical school pioneered by Merola was crucial for the development of liver surgery, a discipline Caprio would undertake starting from 1929...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cancer Gastric cancer Tract Liver cancer Elderly Gastrointestinal Surgery Colorectal cancer Pancreatic cancer Biliary India, a demographically young country, is witnessing a state of population transition. The elderly...

... ] in terms of its prognostic value in HCC patients, this scoring system has some problems and limitations when applied to patients with early-stage HCC. Therefore, a new staging system based on the Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan, the JIS score has been proposed in Japan [ 3 ]. This staging system combined...

... ]. However, the 5-year survival rate of our patient series was 56%, which was almost similar to the effects of liver resection for small liver cancer [ 11 ]. However, the demerits of TACE were also noted, i.e., TACE can cause complications such as liver damage, downstaging of liver cirrhosis, upper...