AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 5 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2021.21883
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Surrogate Indicators of Overall Survival in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hao-Tian Liu1 Yu-Hong Sun2 Zhu-Jian Deng1 Zi-Yi Zhang1 Da-Long Yang1 Kun-Jun Wu1 Xiao-Bu Lan2
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1 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China
2 Department of Pharmacy, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
EJMO 2021, 5(4), 368–370; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2021.21883
Submitted: 16 September 2021 | Accepted: 14 November 2021 | Published: 1 December 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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None declared.
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