Development and validation of nomograms to evaluate the survival outcome of HCC patients undergoing selective postoperative adjuvant TACE

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PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a novel prognostic nomogram to evaluate the survival benefit of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients receiving postoperative adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization (PA-TACE).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical data of HCC patients who underwent hepatectomy at four medical centers were retrospectively analyzed, including those who received PA-TACE and those who did not. These two categories of patients were randomly allocated to the development and validation cohorts in a 7:3 ratio.

RESULTS: A total of 1505 HCC patients who underwent hepatectomy were included in this study, comprising 723 patients who did not receive PA-TACE and 782 patients who received PA-TACE. Among them, patients who received PA-TACE experienced more adverse events, although these events were mild and manageable (Grade 1-2, all p < 0.05). Nomograms were constructed and validated for patients with and without PA-TACE using independent predictors that influenced disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). These two nomograms had C-indices greater than 0.800 in the development cohort and exhibited good calibration and discrimination ability compared to six conventional HCC staging systems. Patients in the intermediate-to-high-risk group in the nomogram who received PA-TACE had higher DFS and OS (all p < 0.05). In addition, tumor recurrence was significantly controlled in the intermediate-to-high-risk group of patients who received PA-TACE, while there was no significant difference in the low-risk group of patients who received PA-TACE.

CONCLUSION: The nomograms were developed and validated based on large-scale clinical data and can serve as online decision-making tools to predict survival benefits from PA-TACE in different subgroups of patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:129

Enthalten in:

La Radiologia medica - 129(2024), 4 vom: 21. Apr., Seite 653-664

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

He, Yongzhu [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Junlin [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Guoqing [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Lifeng [VerfasserIn]
Tu, Shuju [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Laihui [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Renfeng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Liping [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yong [VerfasserIn]
He, Kun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hepatectomy
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Postoperative
Prognosis
Randomized Controlled Trial
Transarterial chemoembolization

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Date Completed 17.04.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11547-024-01792-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370021886