Establishment and Characterization of Human Lymphatic Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Models and Study on the Mechanism of Organ-specific Metastasis
Hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC) is the secondary cancer “killer” in China,
which accounted for 18.8% of total deaths with malignant diseases, and 53%
of all HCC deaths worldwide. Despite of the progress in surgery of liver cancer,
the overall prognosis of HCC is still poor. Only 5% of patients with HCC live out
5 years, and 60~70% patients occur metastasis or recurrence within 5 years
after curative resection. Metastatic recurrence is still the main obstacle to t...