Conventional Transarterial Chemoembolization Versus Drug-Eluting Beads in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurs in nearly three-quarters of all primary liver cancers, with the majority not amenable to curative therapies. We therefore aimed to re-evaluate the safety, efficacy, and survival benefits of treating patients with drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) compared to the conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (C-TACE). Several databases were searched with a strict eligibility criterion for studies reporting on adult patients with unresectable or recurrent HCC. The pooled analysis included 34 studies involving 4841 HCC patients with a median follow-up of 1.5 to 18 months. There were no significant differences between DEB-TACE and C-TACE with regard to complete response, partial response and disease stability. However, disease control (OR: 1.42 (95% CI (1.03,1.96) and objective response (OR: 1.33 (95% CI (0.99, 1.79) were significantly more effective for DEB-TACE treatment with fewer severe complications and all-cause mortality. The pooled-analysis did not find superiority of DEB-TACE in complete or partial response, disease stability, controlling disease progression, and 30 day or end-mortality. However, results showed that DEB-TACE is associated with a better objective response, disease control, and lower all-cause mortality with severe complications compared to C-TACE treatment. Given that the safety outcomes are based on limited studies with a potential for bias, there was no clear improvement of DEB-TACE over C-TACE treatment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 13(2021), 24 vom: 07. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bzeizi, Khalid I [VerfasserIn]
Arabi, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Jamshidi, Negar [VerfasserIn]
Albenmousa, Ali [VerfasserIn]
Sanai, Faisal M [VerfasserIn]
Al-Hamoudi, Waleed [VerfasserIn]
Alghamdi, Saad [VerfasserIn]
Broering, Dieter [VerfasserIn]
Alqahtani, Saleh A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Drug-eluting beads
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Review
Transarterial chemoembolization

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Date Revised 29.12.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers13246172

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334806984