Xudong Zhao, Yudan Wang, Haoming Xia, Shuqiang Liu, Ziyue Huang, Risheng He, Liang Yu, Nanfeng Meng, Hang Wang, Junqi You, Jinglin Li, Judy Wai Ping Yam, Yi Xu, Yunfu Cui
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) being a leading cause of cancer-related death, has high associated mortality and recurrence rates. It has been of great necessity and urgency to find effective HCC diagnosis and treatment measures. Studies have shown that microvascular invasion (MVI) is an independent risk factor for poor prognosis after hepatectomy. The abnormal expression of biomacromolecules such as circ-RNAs, lncRNAs, STIP1, and PD-L1 in HCC patients is strongly correlated with MVI. Deregulation of several markers mentioned in this review affects the proliferation, invasion, metastasis, EMT, and anti-apoptotic processes of HCC cells through multiple complex mechanisms...
October 28, 2023: Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology