Hepatocellular carcinoma biology predicts survival outcome after liver transplantation in the USA

PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinicopathologic prognostic factors of cancer-specific survival (CSS) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who underwent liver transplantation (LT) stratified by tumor size.

METHODS: From the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 18 registries (2004-2012), we retrieved data of 570 patients who underwent LT for a solitary primary HCC lesion ≤5 cm. A two multivariable Cox models were constructed to identify prognostic factors of CSS in a two different tumor sizes (2 cm cutoff).

RESULTS: Out of 570 HCC patients (median age 57 years), 16% had microvascular invasion (MVI) and 12% had a poorly differentiated tumor. Male sex (odds ratio [OR] 2.6), tumor size >2 cm (OR 1.78), elevated AFP (OR 2.31), and poor tumor differentiation (OR 2.59) are significant predictors of MVI. With a median follow up of 41.5 months (range 1-107 months), the 5-year CSS rate was 90% in the absence of MVI compared to 75% in the presence of MVI (p<0.001). Multivariate models revealed that age ≥60 years (hazard ratio [HR] 2.08), MVI (HR 2.26), and poor tumor differentiation (HR 2.42), were significant risk factors of a dismal CSS with HCC size >2 cm, but not with HCC ≤2 cm.

CONCLUSIONS: Primary HCC tumor size ≤2 cm had an excellent prognosis after LT and was not affect by the presence of MVI or poor tumor differentiation.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Indian J Gastroenterol. 2017 Mar;36(2):77-80. - PMID 28357774

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology - 36(2017), 2 vom: 28. März, Seite 117-125

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

El-Fattah, Mohamed Abd [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

HCC
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Liver transplantation
Microvascular invasion
Prognosis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.09.2017

Date Revised 26.11.2019

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Indian J Gastroenterol. 2017 Mar;36(2):77-80. - PMID 28357774

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12664-017-0732-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM268930848