Prognostic prediction in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma not amenable to locoregional treatment

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) not amenable to locoregional therapy have some specific clinical characteristics (advanced cirrhosis or extrahepatic spread) that lead us to ascertain the prognostic efficacy of the different staging systems proposed for this entity.

PATIENTS AND METHOD: We analyze 100 patients (69 males) with a mean age of 70.2 (10.7) years. Tumor staging was performed at baseline according to the following systems: Okuda, Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC), and Japan Integrated Staging (JIS) score. We determine the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) using the 6 and 12-month mortality as endpoint.

RESULTS: The BCLC system had the best predictive power for mortality both at 6 (AUC, 0.871) and 12 months (AUC, 0.924) from diagnosis. In the Cox multivariate analysis, this model showed an independent prognostic effect [hazard ratio: 9.14 for BCLC stage C versus A (p<0.001), and 9.53 for stage D versus A (p=0.004)].

CONCLUSIONS: The BCLC system provided the best prognostic stratification for patients with HCC not amenable to locoregional therapy.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:133

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Medicina clinica - 133(2009), 15 vom: 24. Okt., Seite 581-5

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Predicción pronóstica en pacientes con carcinoma hepatocelular no subsidiario de tratamiento locorregional

Beteiligte Personen:

Fernández-Ruiz, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Guerra-Vales, Juan Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Vila-Santos, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Colina-Ruizdelgado, Francisco [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 03.02.2010

Date Revised 20.10.2009

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.medcli.2009.06.053

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NLM191300845