Current Standards of Systemic Therapies in Advanced Hepatocellular Cancer: A Review


Authored by Piyush Vyas

Sorafenib a multikinase inhibitor is the only approved systemic therapy in the treatment of advanced hepatocellular cancer. No other targeted therapy have proved to be better, a lot of phase 3 trials with many targeted have shown no significant or clinically relevant activity. After SHARP trial no other trial with any other targeted therapy has shown any significant improvement in the treatment of hepatocellular cancer. EACH trial, a phase 3 randomized trial conducted on Asian patients proved better RR and PFS of FOLFOX4 regimen when compared to doxorubicin, showed efficacy and safety of FOLFOX4 protocol. In the light of so many negative phase 3 trials with targeted therapies, it seems only sorafenib still can be considered a standard therapy in advanced HCC.



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