Comparison of surgical resection versus transarterial chemoembolization with additional radiation therapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein invasion

• Published in: Clinical and molecular hepatology Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 135 - 136
• Main Author: Chung, Jin Wook
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 01.06.2018; The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver; 대한간학회
• Subjects: Cancer therapies; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - surgery; Chemoembolization; Chemoembolization, Therapeutic; External beam radiotherapy; Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Humans; Liver cancer; Liver Neoplasms - surgery; Portal Vein; Radiation therapy; Surgical resection; 내과학; Hong Kong China; China; Surgical resection; Hepatocellular carcinoma; External beam radiotherapy; Chemoembolization
• ISSN: 2287-2728; 2287-285X; 2287-285X
• DOI: 10.3350/cmh.2018.1001

[...]the survival outcome of resection group was extremely good. There is a chance that more aggressive therapies including hepatic resection may reveal better survival outcome in the favorable subgroups than standard therapies. Because of difficulties conducting prospective randomized trials in HCC, I believe it is still valuable to continue our efforts to find out the subgroups in which hepatic resection shows better outcome than standard therapies from our routine practice cohort. Survival benefit of hepatic resection versus transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.