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EASL 2008: Sorafenib (Nexavar) Improves Outcomes in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

In a late-breaker presentations at the 43rd annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL 2008) last month in Milan, researchers discussed data from the SHARP study, which evaluated sorafenib (Nexavar) as a therapy for HCC. Sorafenib, which was already approved for primary kidney cancer, recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for unresectable (not curable by surgery) HCC.

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