%0 Journal Article %T Pretreatment plasma HGF as potential biomarker for susceptibility to radiation-induced liver dysfunction after radiotherapy %A Andrew X. Zhu %A Beow Y. Yeap %A Christine E. Eyler %A Christopher H. Crane %A Clemens Grassberger %A Dan G. Duda %A Eugene J. Koay %A Irinel Popescu %A Jeffrey W. Clark %A Jennifer Y. Wo %A Lipika Goyal %A Simona Dima %A Theodore S. Hong %A Thomas F. DeLaney %A Wenqing Jiang %J Archive of "NPJ Precision Oncology". %D 2018 %R 10.1038/s41698-018-0065-y %X Association between Child£¿Turcotte£¿Pugh (CTP) score and pretreatment plasma hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in liver cancer patients undergoing hypofractionated radiation therapy with protons. a, b Plasma HGF concentration is significantly higher in patients with worsening in CTP score by at least 1 point after radiation therapy within 3 months a and within 6 months b. Data shown as median values and range %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194077/