# EASL response criteria for liver cancer (2001)

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## TL;DR

The EASL criteria judge a liver cancer's response by how much of it has died after treatment rather than by its size, an idea later built into mRECIST.

## Summary

The Barcelona-2000 conference of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (Bruix and colleagues, Journal of Hepatology 2001) set conclusions for managing hepatocellular carcinoma. As Lencioni and Llovet describe, the panel amended the WHO response criteria to take account of treatment-induced tumour necrosis, and response measured this way was associated with outcome. The CDISC codelist holds it as EASL Bruix Liver Cancer 2001.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: EASL criteria; EASL response criteria

## Sources

- Bruix et al., Clinical management of hepatocellular carcinoma: conclusions of the Barcelona-2000 EASL conference (J Hepatol 2001): https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-8278(01)00130-1
- Lencioni and Llovet, Modified RECIST (mRECIST) assessment for hepatocellular carcinoma (Semin Liver Dis 2010): https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0030-1247132

## Connected records

- terms: [Complete response (CR) and partial response (PR)](https://onco.cc/terms/complete-response-term/), [mRECIST for liver cancer (modified RECIST)](https://onco.cc/terms/mrecist/), [RECICL (Japanese response criteria for liver cancer)](https://onco.cc/terms/recicl/)
- cancers: [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/)

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