Abstract
Systemic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has markedly changed since 2007, with
the approval of sorafenib. Sorafenib improved the overall survival of patients with advanced
HCC; however, the modest efficacy and toxicity of this therapy present unmet needs.
Subsequently, a variety of molecular targeted agents have been tested as first-line or secondline
therapies but have failed, and sorafenib has remained the only approved systemic agent
for almost 10 years. Recently, regorafenib significantly improved overall survival and was
approved for patients with HCC who have been previously treated with sorafenib. Nivolumab,
a programmed death protein-1 inhibitor, was also approved as second-line therapy, based on
remarkable response rates.
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