Publications by authors named "Fang-Yu Bonnie Sheu"

Purpose: The current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) includes all solitary tumors without vascular invasion as stage I, regardless of tumor size. The aim of this study is to determine the prognostic significance of tumor size in stage I HCC patients.

Methods: A total of 230 stage I primary HCCs were selected retrospectively.

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Carbonic anhydrase IX (CA-IX), a hypoxia marker, correlates with tumor progression in a variety of human cancers. However, the role of CA-IX in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) remains largely unknown. We examined the expression of 277 unifocal, resectable, primary HCC tumors using immunohistochemistry.

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