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World J Gastroenterol. Mar 14, 2020; 26(10): 1042-1055
Published online Mar 14, 2020. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i10.1042
Published online Mar 14, 2020. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v26.i10.1042
Prognostic factors and predictors of postoperative adjuvant transcatheter arterial chemoembolization benefit in patients with resected hepatocellular carcinoma
Ming-Yu Chen, Jia-Sheng Cao, Xiu-Jun Cai, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Ming-Yu Chen, Sarun Juengpanich, Jia-Hao Hu, Win Topatana, Xiu-Jun Cai, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, Zhejiang Province, China
Ming-Yu Chen, Engineering Research Center of Cognitive Healthcare of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
Chen-Hao Tong, Department of General Surgery, Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Zhejiang University, Shaoxing 312000, Zhejiang Province, China
Jian Lin, Department of General Surgery, Longyou People’s Hospital, Quzhou 314400, Zhejiang Province, China
Author contributions: Chen MY, Cao JS, Juengpanich S, and Hu JH were involved in study design, collected and analyzed data, and drafted the paper; Topatana W, Tong CH, and Lin J collected and checked data; Cai XJ designed and supervised the study; and all authors wrote the paper.
Supported by Opening Fund of Engineering Research Center of Cognitive Healthcare of Zhejiang Province , No. 2018KFJJ09 ; and National Natural Science Foundation of China , No. 81827804 .
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflicts of interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
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Corresponding author: Xiu-Jun Cai, FACS, FRCS, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 3, East Qingchun Road, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China. srrsh_cxj@zju.edu.cn
Received: November 13, 2019
Peer-review started: November 13, 2019
First decision: December 4, 2019
Revised: December 20, 2019
Accepted: February 9, 2020
Article in press: February 9, 2020
Published online: March 14, 2020
Peer-review started: November 13, 2019
First decision: December 4, 2019
Revised: December 20, 2019
Accepted: February 9, 2020
Article in press: February 9, 2020
Published online: March 14, 2020
Core Tip
Core tip: We have identified the prognostic and predictive factors that can assist clinicians in selecting hepatocellular carcinoma patients who could achieve a better overall survival with postoperative adjuvant transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (PA-TACE). Our study demonstrated that PA-TACE showed a better outcome with longer overall survival in each variable compared to surgery alone. Both Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging and the ferritin-to-hemoglobin ratio demonstrated significance as prognostic factors, whereas high ferritin-to-hemoglobin ratio and the absence of microscopic vascular invasion were predictive factors. The potential prognostic factors identified in this study could prove to be helpful for the future design of clinical trials regarding PA-TACE.