Treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with very low levels of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields.

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Published in Br J Cancer on August 09, 2011

Authors

F P Costa1, A C de Oliveira, R Meirelles, M C C Machado, T Zanesco, R Surjan, M C Chammas, M de Souza Rocha, D Morgan, A Cantor, J Zimmerman, I Brezovich, N Kuster, A Barbault, B Pasche

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, University of São Paulo, Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 255, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil. fredericoperegocosta@gmail.com

Associated clinical trials:

Phase I/II Study of Amplitude-Modulated Electromagnetic Fields in the Treatment of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (TheraBionic) | NCT00534664

Detecting Tumor Specific Amplitude-modulated Frequencies of Cancer Patients | NCT03037840

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