External validation of a simplified BCLC staging system for early hepatocellular carcinoma

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The aim was to externally validate the capability of a simplified Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (s-BCLC) staging system in allocating patients to hepatic resection (HR) and the effect on survival: S-BCLC was defined by only 2 groups: AA included BCLC A1 + A2 classes with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) ≤ 20 ng/ml and AB included A1 + A2 with AFP > 20 ng/ml plus A3 + A4 subgroups.

METHODS: This study compared a training group (TG) with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) submitted to hepatic resection (HR) in Milan with another group of patients, the validation group (VG) in Creteil. All patients underwent ultrasound-guided anatomical resection (<3 segments).

RESULTS: Overall survival got worse from A1 to A4 (p = 0.0271) in TG (n = 132), as well as in VG (n = 100) (p = 0.0044) with a more important overlapping of each curves. According s-BCLC classification, the survival curves of TG (p = 0.0001) and VG (p = 0.0250) showed a definitive separation in two different staging groups. The s-BCLC provided the best predictive accuracy and it also presented the highest separability index and C-statistics in both TG and VG. On the other hand, in the evaluation of discriminatory ability for death, measured by ROC curve areas, the s-BCLC system gave better results than the others.

CONCLUSION: This experience stressed the high value of BCLC system in staging of HCC, but the s-BCLC system seems to be more useful for therapeutic decision making.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology - 39(2013), 8 vom: 05. Aug., Seite 850-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Santambrogio, R [VerfasserIn]
Salceda, J [VerfasserIn]
Costa, M [VerfasserIn]
Kluger, M D [VerfasserIn]
Barabino, M [VerfasserIn]
Laurent, A [VerfasserIn]
Opocher, E [VerfasserIn]
Azoulay, D [VerfasserIn]
Cherqui, D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AASLD
AFP
Alpha-Fetoproteins
Alpha-fetoprotein
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
BCLC
Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer
Biomarkers, Tumor
Comparative Study
HCC
HR
Hepatic resection
Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
Hepatocellular carcinoma
IHPBA
IOUS
Intraoperative ultrasonography
Journal Article
LCSGJ
Laparoscopy
Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan
Liver cancer
Liver cirrhosis
Radiofrequency ablation
S-BCLC
Simplified system for BCLC stage A
Staging system
TG
Training group
VG
Validation Study
Validation group

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Date Completed 09.09.2013

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejso.2013.05.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM227966058