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Narrow-margin hepatectomy combined with external beam radiotherapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BMC Cancer · 2025 · PMC12859944 · PMID 41455990

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marginal significancep = 0.053so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Four of these studies [ 17 , 44 , 48 , 49 ] indicated statistically significant benefits, while one study [ 47 ] reported marginal significance ( p = 0.053), and two studies [ 43 , 45 ] showed no statistically significant differences between the hepatectomy combined with EBRT and hepatectomy alone.

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