Prof riccardo lencioni biography
Lencioni is one of the world's foremost interventional oncology specialists, known especially for his highly influential work in liver cancer..
Professor Lencioni is one of the world’s foremost interventional oncology specialists, known especially for his highly influential work in liver cancer.
He has been the principal investigator of several large, multicenter, randomized clinical trials investigating the use of image-guided interventions for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and the potential synergies between loco-regional and systemic therapies.
Professor Lencioni has been a leading member of several expert panels developing recommendations for research and clinical management of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Lencioni is director, Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Intervention, Pisa University Hospital and School of Medicine, Pisa, Italy.
He is also known for having developed
modified RECIST (mRECIST) criteria for the assessment of tumor response in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Riccardo Lencioni has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed international journals indexed in
PubMed and numerous chapters in textbooks of radiology, gastroenterology, oncology and surgery.
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addition, he has been the editor of nine books. According to th