scholarly journals A Molecular Hepatocellular Carcinoma Prognostic Score System Precisely Predicts Overall Survival of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 000 (000) ◽  
pp. 000-000
Author(s):  
Jie Jia ◽  
Jing Tang
Cancer ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 113 (10) ◽  
pp. 2742-2751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Yau ◽  
Tzy Jyun Yao ◽  
Pierre Chan ◽  
Kelvin Ng ◽  
Sheung Tat Fan ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 193-193
Author(s):  
Zhan-Hong Chen ◽  
Xing Li ◽  
Min Dong ◽  
Xiao-Kun Ma ◽  
Xiang-Yuan Wu

193 Background: Prognosis of patients with advanced HCC is very poor, median overall survival varies from 3 to 6 months. Life expectancy more than 3 months is one inclusion criteria for molecular targeted drugs in clinical tirals. We have established a new prognostic system called SYSU system (variables and risk classification criteria are listed below, reported in MASCC 2013) and now we want to compare this new prognostic system and 5 current staging systems in predicting the survival rate of patients with advanced HCC. Methods: From September 2008 to June 2010, a total of 253 patients with advanced HCC who were not amendable to locoregional therapy were analyzed. The median follow-up is 38.5 months and the median survival is 7 months. Data were collected to classify patients according to our new system(SYSU system), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging for hepatocellular carcinoma (BCLC), Advanced Liver Cancer Prognostic System (ALCPS), Chinese University Prognostic Index staging system for HCC (CUPI), OKUDA score system and French scoring system(GETCH) at diagnosis. OS and 3-month OS were the end points used in the analysis. Results: When predicting 3-month survival, ROC analysis show AUC of SYSU system, ALCPS, CUPI,OKUDA, GETCH and BCLC is 0.822,0.821,0.777,0.756,0.688 and 0.621. AUC of SYSU system and ALCPS is similar and they are significantly better than the other four staging system (p<0.05). When predicting overall survival, likelihood ratio test show χ2 of SYSU system, ALCPS, CUPI,OKUDA, GETCH and BCLC is 97.7,85, 50.5, 46.4,22.6 and 8.4 and AIC of SYSU system, ALCPS, CUPI,OKUDA, GETCH and BCLC is 1939,1952,1986,1990,2014 and 2028. Our SYSU system has best performance in terms of discriminatory ability, homogeneity and monotonicity. Conclusions: Our SYSU system is the best score system in prediction of OS and 3-month OS among the 6 systems analyzed for Chinese advanced HCC patients. [Table: see text]


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Piero Guerrini ◽  
Domenico Pinelli ◽  
Elena Marini ◽  
Vittorio Corno ◽  
Michela Guizzetti ◽  
...  

Context: Liver transplantation (LT) is considered the ideal therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) having cirrhosis but the shortage of liver donors and the risk of dropout from the wait list due to tumor progression severely limit transplantation. A new prognostic score, the HCC-model for end-stage liver disease (HCC-MELD), was developed by combining α-fetoprotein (AFP), MELD, and tumor size, to improve risk stratification of dropout in patients with HCC. Objectives: In this study, we investigated the ability of the HCC-MELD score in predicting the posttransplant for patients fulfilling Milan criteria (MC). Design: Two hundred patients with stage II tumor were retrospectively reviewed from a total of 1290 transplants performed at our institution from October 1997 through April 2015. Cox regression analysis was performed to identify the prognostic factors impacting the posttransplant survival. Results: Overall survival at 1, 5, and 10 years was 89.3%, 71.1%, and 67.2%, whereas disease-free survival was 86.4%, 66.5%, and 52.4%, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed HCC-MELD score (hazard ratio [HR] 39.6, P < .001) and microvascular invasion (HR 2.41, P = .002) to be independent risk factors for recurrence, whereas HCC diameter (HR 1.15, P = .041), HCC-MELD (HR 15.611, P = .006), and grading (HR 2.17, P = .03) proved to be predictive factors of poor overall survival. Conclusion: Our study showed the validity of the HCC-MELD equation in the evaluation of patients undergoing LT for HCC. This score offers a reliable method to assess the risk of waiting list dropout and predict posttransplantation outcomes.


Medicine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 95 (31) ◽  
pp. e4296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-yi Shen ◽  
Chuan Li ◽  
Tian-fu Wen ◽  
Lv-nan Yan ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Li Zhao ◽  
Qian Yang ◽  
Jianbo Liu

Abstract Background Patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are at high risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study aimed to evaluate the expression of microRNA-324-3p (miR-324-3p) in HBV-related HCC, and explore the clinical significance of serum miR-324-3p and other available biomarkers in the diagnosis and prognosis of HBV-related HCC. Methods Expression of miR-324-3p in HBV-infection-related cells and patients was estimated using quantitative real-time PCR. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of serum miR-324-3p, AFP and PIVKA-II in the differentiation of HBV-related HCC from healthy controls and chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The relationship between serum miR-324-3p and patients’ clinical features was assessed using Chi-square test, and the value of miR-324-3p to predict overall survival prognosis was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier methods and Cox regression assay in patients with HBV-related HCC. Results HBV-related HCC cells had significantly increased miR-324-3p compared with normal and HBV-unrelated HCC cells, and serum miR-324-3p in HCC patients with HBV infection was also higher than that in healthy controls and CHB. Serum miR-324-3p had relatively high diagnostic accuracy for the screening of HCC case with HBV infection, and the combination of miR-324-3p, AFP and PIVKA-II showed the improved diagnostic performance. Additionally, high serum miR-324-2p in HBV-related HCC patients was associated with cirrhosis, tumor size, clinical stage and poor overall survival prognosis. Conclusion Serum increased miR-324-3p may be involved in the progression of HBV-related hepatitis to HCC, and may serve as a candidate biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of HBV-related HCC.


Author(s):  
Andreas Schmidt ◽  
Angela Armento ◽  
Ovidio Bussolati ◽  
Martina Chiu ◽  
Verena Ellerkamp ◽  
...  

Abstract Purpose Glutamine plays an important role in cell viability and growth of various tumors. For the fetal subtype of hepatoblastoma, growth inhibition through glutamine depletion was shown. We studied glutamine depletion in embryonal cell lines of hepatoblastoma carrying different mutations. Since asparagine synthetase was identified as a prognostic factor and potential therapeutic target in adult hepatocellular carcinoma, we investigated the expression of its gene ASNS and of the gene GLUL, encoding for glutamine synthetase, in hepatoblastoma specimens and cell lines and investigated the correlation with overall survival. Methods We correlated GLUL and ASNS expression with overall survival using publicly available microarray and clinical data. We examined GLUL and ASNS expression by RT-qPCR and by Western blot analysis in the embryonal cell lines Huh-6 and HepT1, and in five hepatoblastoma specimens. In the same cell lines, we investigated the effects of glutamine depletion. Hepatoblastoma biopsies were examined for histology and CTNNB1 mutations. Results High GLUL expression was associated with a higher median survival time. Independent of mutations and histology, hepatoblastoma samples showed strong GLUL expression and glutamine synthesis. Glutamine depletion resulted in the inhibition of proliferation and of cell viability in both embryonal hepatoblastoma cell lines. ASNS expression did not correlate with overall survival. Conclusion Growth inhibition resulting from glutamine depletion, as described for the hepatoblastoma fetal subtype, is also detected in established embryonal hepatoblastoma cell lines carrying different mutations. At variance with adult hepatocellular carcinoma, in hepatoblastoma asparagine synthetase has no prognostic significance.


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