Systematic perspective in the decision making of liver cancer management

Currently,as various liver cancer-related treatments in China become developed,doctors also become super-subspecialized.This results in the doctors having more specialized skills and knowledge but a narrower vision.There is a tendency for these super-subspecialists to think and to make decisions based on a narrow perspective.As a consequence,interdisciplinary collaboration is becoming difficult.This hinders further improvement of treatment of liver cancer which has reached a plateau for many years.The present paper proposes a systematic perspective in decisionmaking for treatment of liver cancer.There are seven aspects which include the basic nature of medical care,the history of development of treatment,liver anatomical and functional characteristics,multicentric tumour occurrence,pathology,tumor immunology and biology.We aim to broaden the doctors’ vision and optimize their clinical thinking process. Key words: Liver cancer;  Systematic perspective; Decision-making