Transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: development and external validation of the Munich-TACE score

BACKGROUNDAllocation of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to the adequate therapy is determined by both tumor burden and liver function. The Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system and therapeutic algorithm recommends transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) based on the best ev...

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Veröffentlicht in:European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology 2018-01, Vol.30 (1), p.44-53
Hauptverfasser: op den Winkel, Mark, Nagel, Dorothea, op den Winkel, Philip, Trojan, Jörg, Paprottka, Philipp M, Steib, Christian J, Schmidt, Laura, Göller, Markus, Stieber, Petra, Göhring, Peter, Herbst, Andreas, Rentsch, Markus, De Toni, Enrico N, Göke, Burkhard, Gerbes, Alexander L, Kolligs, Frank T
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Zusammenfassung:BACKGROUNDAllocation of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to the adequate therapy is determined by both tumor burden and liver function. The Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system and therapeutic algorithm recommends transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) based on the best evidence available to patients with intermediate-stage HCC (BCLC-B). However, many centers also treat subgroups of patients outside these recommendations and with more advanced disease by TACE. The purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors in a TACE cohort, including BCLC-B patients, as well as patients treated outside of BCLC-B, to test the prognostic capabilities of published staging systems and to optimize prognostication for TACE patients. PATIENTS AND METHODSA cohort of 186 first-line TACE patients was analyzed. Independent prognostic factors were identified and used to construct the Munich-TACE score (M-TACE). M-TACE was tested against established staging systems (including BCLC and two recently published TACE-specific scores) and a ranking using concordance index and Akaike Information Criterion was performed. Finally, an external validation in an independent TACE cohort (n=71) was conducted. RESULTSBilirubin, Quick/international normalized ratio, C-reactive protein, creatinine, α-feto protein, and tumor extension were identified as independent prognostic factors and used to construct M-TACE. M-TACE identifies three distinct subgroups (P
ISSN:0954-691X
1473-5687
DOI:10.1097/MEG.0000000000001005