scholarly journals The Use of Statin Is Associated With Better Disease-Free Survival In Patients with Hepatitis B-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Treatment

HPB ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. S24-S25
Author(s):  
C. Chong ◽  
G. Wong ◽  
P. Ip ◽  
T. Yip ◽  
J. Wong ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
panquan luo ◽  
lixiang zhang ◽  
lei chen ◽  
gang wang ◽  
hai zhu ◽  
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Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a primary malignancy of the hepatocyte with high risk of invasion, metastasis and poor prognosis, which leads to a high mortality rate in recent years. This study aims to investigate the independent prognosis factors of DFS(disease free survival) in hepatocellular carcinoma patients after radical hepatectomy.Methods This study retrospectively analyzed 358 patients admitted to the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical College from December 2009 to December 2014. Categorical variables were analyzed by chi-square test. The survival curve was plotted by kaplan-meier method and tested by log-rank method. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were performed to determine the prognostic factors.Results Among the 344 patients with liver cancer, 298 cases (86.63%) are young patients (< 70 years), and 46 cases (13.37%) were elderly patients (≥ 70 years). There were no significant difference in gender, smoking history, alcohol consumption history, Body Mass Index (BMI), number of cancer nodules, tumor diameter, differentiation degree and TNM stage between the young and elderly groups (P > 0.05). However, history of hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis were more common in young patients than elderly (P=0.017, P༝0.000). The Kaplan-Meier curves indicated that elderly patients (higher than 70 years), TNM I-II stage and no history of hepatitis B had longer DFS. The univariate and multivariate analyses showed that age, TNM stage, History of hepatitis B were the independent factors for DFS.Conclusions Our findings suggested that age, TNM stage, history of hepatitis B were independent factors for predicting DFS of primary hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Patients older than 70 years had a better prognosis than young patients. Patients with early TNM stage and no history of hepatitis B had longer DFS.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Wen Lin ◽  
Tsung-Chin Wu ◽  
Hung-Yu Lin ◽  
Chao-Ming Hung ◽  
Pei-Min Hsieh ◽  
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Abstract Background Combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-CC) is an infrequent type of primary liver cancer that comprises hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC). This study investigated the clinicopathological features and prognosis among cHCC-CC, HCC, and CC groups. Methods We prospectively collected the data of 608 patients who underwent surgical resection for liver cancer between 2011 and 2018 at E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Overall, 505 patients with cHCC-CC, HCC, and CC were included, and their clinicopathological features, overall survival (OS), and recurrence were recorded. OS and recurrence rates were analyzed using the Kaplan–Meier analysis. Results In the entire cohort, the median age was 61 years and 80% were men. Thirty-five (7.0%) had cHCC-CC, 419 (82.9%) had HCC, and 51 (10.1%) had CC. The clinicopathological features of the cHCC-CC group were more identical to those of the HCC group than the CC group. OS was significantly lower in the cHCC-CC group than in the HCC group but was not significantly higher in the cHCC-CC group than in the CC group. The median OS of cHCC-CC, HCC, and CC groups was 50.1 months [95% confidence interval (CI): 38.7–61.2], 62.3 months (CI: 42.1–72.9), and 36.2 months (CI: 15.4–56.5), respectively. Cumulative OS rates at 1, 3, and 5 years in cHCC-CC, HCC, and CC groups were 88.5%, 62.2%, and 44.0%; 91.2%, 76.1%, and 68.0%; and 72.0%, 48.1%, and 34.5%, respectively. After propensity score matching (PSM), OS in the cHCC-CC group was not significantly different from that in the HCC or CC group. However, OS was significantly higher in the HCC group than in the CC group before and after PSM. Furthermore, the disease-free survival was not significantly different among cHCC-CC, HCC, and CC groups before and after PSM. Conclusion The clinicopathological features of the cHCC-CC group were more identical to those of the HCC group than the CC group. The OS rate was significantly lower in the cHCC-CC group than the HCC group. However, after PSM, OS and disease-free survival in the cHCC-CC group were not significantly different from those in the HCC or CC group.


Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2810
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yogi Pratama ◽  
Alessia Visintin ◽  
Lory Saveria Crocè ◽  
Claudio Tiribelli ◽  
Devis Pascut

The clinical outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment remains unsatisfactory, contributing to the high mortality of HCC worldwide. Circulating miRNAs have the potential to be a predictor of therapy response. Microarray profiling was performed in serum samples of 20 HCC patients before treatment. Circulating miRNAs associated with treatment response were validated in 86 serum HCC samples using the qRT-PCR system. Patients were treated either with curative treatments (resection or radiofrequency) or trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE), and grouped according to therapy response in complete responders (CR) and partial responders or progressive disease (PRPD), following mRECIST criteria. Four miRNA candidates from the discovery phase (miR-4443, miR-4454, miR-4492, and miR-4530) were validated. Before therapy, miR-4454 and miR-4530 were up-regulated in CR to curative treatments (2.83 fold, p = 0.02 and 2.33 fold, p = 0.008, respectively) and were able to differentiate CR from PRPD (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.74, sens/spec 79/63% and AUC = 0.77, sens/spec 72/73%). On the contrary, miR-4443 was 1.95 times down-regulated in CR (p = 0.05) with an AUC of 0.72 (sens = 70%, spec = 60%) in distinguishing CR vs. PRPD. The combination of the three miRNAs was able to predict the response to curative treatment with an AUC of 0.84 (sens = 72%, spec = 75%). The higher levels of miR-4454 and miR-4530 in were associated to longer overall survival (HR = 2.79, p = 0.029 and HR = 2.97, p = 0.011, respectively). Before TACE, miR-4492 was significantly up-regulated in CR patients (FC = 2.67, p = 0.01) and able to differentiate CR from PRPD (AUC = 0.84, sens/spec 84.6/71%). We demonstrated that different miRNAs predictors can be used as potential prognostic circulating biomarkers according to the selected treatment for HCC.


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