Make great efforts to improve the levels of refined diagnosis and individualized treatment for micro-vascular invasion of liver cancer in China / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Recurrence after surgical resection is a bottleneck that severely restricts the long-term efficacy of patients with liver cancer, mainly referring to hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangio-carcinoma. As the most representative pathobiological feature of liver cancer, microvascular invasion ( MVI) should be taken as an important focus to break through the bottleneck of postoperative recurrence. The new pathological diagnostic criteria and classification scheme of MVI has been written into the current"Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Liver Cancer" of China. It is not only an important pathological indi-cation for the clinical implementation of anti-recurrence therapy after operation, but also an key pathological basis for the clinical formulation of postoperative anti-recurrent therapy. Therefore, we intend to investigate how to make better use of it. From now on, multidisciplinary research should be strengthened in order to make real progress in the occurrence mechanism, migration pathway, distribution pattern, accurate identifi-cation and effective treatment of MVI in order to further improve the long-term efficacy of patients with liver cancer.