By contrast, in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC ... nodes, and metastasis (TNM) or Child-Pugh staging, are useless. Several scoring systems have been developed, but unfortunately ...
HCC = hepatocellular carcinoma; JIS = Japanese Integrated System; MELD = Model for End-Stage Liver Disease; PS = performance status; TNM = tumor, nodes, and metastasis T2: Solitary tumor with ...