Objective:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequent malignant tumors, and it is characterized by its high capacity for invasion and metastasis.Hepatocellular carcinoma is a major cause of cancer death, but the molecular mechanism for its development beyond its initiation has not been well clear. Significance of signal transduction and activators of transcription-3(STAT3) has been detected in a wide variety of human tumor cell including Hepatocellular carcinoma.The expression of matrix metal...