Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Part A. Causes, Biological and Molecular bases of HCC.- Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 2. Environmental Carcinogens and Risk for Human Liver Cancer.- Chapter 3. Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 4. Chemically-Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis.- Chapter 5. Molecular Profiling of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 6. Genomic signatures of risk factors and molecular identification of HCC subtypes.- Chapter 7. MicroRNAs and hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 8. Non-tumor prognostic factors in hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 9. Gut microbiota and HCC.- Chapter 10. Hepatocellular Carcinoma as a Paradigm for a Systemic Evolutionary Approach to Cancer.- Chapter 11. HCC and its Microenvironment.- Chapter 12. Circulating tumor cells (Liquid Tumor Biopsy) in hepatocellular carcinoma: biology, methodologies, and clinical implications.- Chapter 13. Role of the immune system in hepatocellular carcinoma: Implications for existingand novel therapies.- Chapter 14. Inter- and Intratumor Heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 15. Systemic inflammation: a new prognostic domain and source of therapeutic targets in hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 16. Hepatocellular Carcinoma Associated with Hepatitis B virus.- Chapter 17. Hepatitis C and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 18. Obesity, NASH and HCC.- Chapter 19. Metabolic Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Part B. Diagnosis.- Chapter 20. Pathologic Aspects of Hepatocellular Tumors.- Chapter 21. Protein biomarkers in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma: Novel combinatory approaches.- Chapter 22. Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 23. Use of Imaging Techniques to Screen for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 24. Ultrasound of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Important Contribution of Contrast Enhancement.- Chapter 25. MRI for Detection and Evaluation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 26. Computed Tomography of HCC.- Chapter 27. Clinical features and clinician's diagnostic approach to hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 28. Current HCC Staging systems: their uses and limitations.- Part C. Therapies.- Chapter 29. Percutaneous Ethanol Injection.- Chapter 30. Thermal Ablative Treatments For Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 31. Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 32. Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 33. Medical Therapy of HCC.- Chapter 34. Targeted therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 35. Radiation Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Chapter 36. Psychosocial Issues in Hepatocellular carcinoma.- Chapter 37. Bringing it all together.