Optimizing hepatocellular carcinoma disease staging systems by incorporating tumor micronecrosis : A multi-institutional retrospective study

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Tumor micronecrosis is a pathological feature that reflects malignant biological behavior in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, whether micronecrosis can optimize HCC staging systems remains unilluminated. A total of 1632 HCC patients who underwent curative hepatectomy in four institutions from January 2014 to December 2021 were enrolled in this study. Independent prognostic factors were identified, and optimized staging models were established using a training cohort (n = 934). The performance of optimized staging models was validated using an external cohort consisting of cases from three other institutions (n = 232). In addition, patients from our prospectively collected database (n = 379) tested the application effectiveness of the models. Harrel's c-statistics and the corrected Akaike information criterion (AICc) were used to assess the performance of staging models. In most of Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) and tumor (T) stages, HCC patients with tumor micronecrosis showed poorer prognosis than those without. Tumor micronecrosis, microvascular invasion, multiple tumors and tumor size >2 cm were independent prognostic-related factors. The BCLC and T staging models incorporating tumor micronecrosis showed better performance than the original systems (c-statistic, 0.712 and 0.711 vs. 0.664 and 0.679; AICc, 2314.8 and 2322.3 vs. 2338.2 and 2338.1; respectively). Furthermore, the external validation cohort confirmed that the optimized staging models had improved efficiency compared with the original ones. Moreover, the prospective cohort demonstrated the applicability of the optimized staging systems. Tumor micronecrosis plays a stage-ascending role in HCC patients. The BCLC and T staging systems incorporating tumor micronecrosis can improve the prognosis stratification efficiency of patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:585

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Cancer letters - 585(2024) vom: 31. März, Seite 216654

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yangyang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Cao [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Hongbin [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Juhui [VerfasserIn]
Li, Enliang [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Zhixiong [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Qihan [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Xuqi [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jiangchao [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Mao [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Wanyue [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Qitai [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Xiaobao [VerfasserIn]
Han, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Wenyong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Linquan [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yongyi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Tingbo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

BCLC
Disease staging
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
TNM
Tumor micronecrosis

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Date Completed 05.03.2024

Date Revised 05.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216654

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367627582