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(MedPage Today) -- Radiofrequency ablation is safe and effective in managing hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis, Italian researchers reported.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco propose that treatments used on liver cancers beyond the established Milan criteria for liver transplantation may be appropriate for all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who are listed for transplantation.

Full details appear in the August issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

MILAN, Italy (MedPage Today) -- Current criteria for evaluating liver cancer patients for possible transplantation may unnecessarily disqualify some who would benefit from the procedure, researchers here said.