Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Hepatocellular"

Recurrence and metastasis are the main factors affecting the prognosis of liver cancer after curative resection. Establishing an effective prognostic evaluation method is able to not only assess patients' prognosis but also guide the treatment. At the same time, it helps us to gain knowledge of the mechanism underlying recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer and to provide the basis for the search for new effective intervention method. In order to establish an effective prognostic evaluation method, we select liver cancer patients undergoing curative resection in our hospital. We plan to employ various technologies such as gene chip, methylation chip and flow cytometry to carry out comprehensive researches on liver cancer cell genetics, epigenetics, stem cells and tumor microenvironment changes. By analyzing clinical information including pathological features, patients' response to treatment, relapse, metastasis and survival, we aim to obtain the important factors affecting liver cancer prognosis, survival, recurrence and metastasis in order to be able to find and establish the effective prognostic evaluation method.

In this international non-interventional study safety and clinical data concerning the treatment of patients suffering from Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) will be collected.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignant tumor of the liver. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the traditional method for the palliative management of patients with HCC. Few previous studies had demonstrated that the serum level of anticancer drug from patients treated by TACE was similar to those treated by systemic chemotherapy. The defense ability of the patient treated by TACE may thus be influenced by the leakage of anticancer drug to the systemic circulation. Since more than 80% patients with HCC also have liver cirrhosis, the toxicity for those anticancer drugs with hepatic transformation will be increased caused by the cirrhotic liver. The severity of pancytopenia in cirrhosis will be exacerbated by the effect of bone marrow suppression caused by anticancer drugs. Patients are at high risk for infection and hemorrhage. Therefore, it is of clinical importance to prevent or decrease the leakage of anticancer drugs to systemic circulation in patients treated by TACE. The procedures of TACE performed by previous studies were not constant and the distributions of tumor vessels were not evaluated in detail. The possible risk factors for the leakage of anticancer drug have not been investigated. This project will collect 60 patients with HCC including 30 patients with hepatitis B and 30 patients with hepatitis C. The blood levels of anticancer drugs (epirubicin, mitomycin C and cisplatin) will be determined within one hour and at the third day after TACE.

Polymorphisms of HSP70 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha promoter in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic liver disease and healthy controls will be measured by PCR-RFLP or direct sequencing. The clinical relevance of patients will be compared in those with polymorphism and those without.

Specific urine proteases or groups of these enzymes can be reliable biomarkers and an effective gauge of response to therapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

This study is a regulatory post-marketing surveillance in Japan, and it is a local prospective and observational study of patients who have received Nexavar for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The objective of this study is to assess safety and effectiveness of Nexavar under real-life practice conditions. This study is an all case investigation of which the enrollment period is 2 or 3 months (dependent on sites) for Child-Pugh A; for Child-Pugh B or C, the enrollment continues until agreement to stop with Pharmaceuticals Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). All patients who have received Nexavar will be recruited and followed one year since starting Nexavar administration.

Liver carcinoma is becoming the main complication of cirrhosis. Treatment of symptomatic or large tumors is disappointing. Regular ultrasonographic screening of small (curable) tumors is currently recommended, but the best periodicity is unknown.This randomized trial is aimed to compare 6-month (current recommendation) and 3-month ultrasonographic screenings.

This study utilizes a new method to explore compare the overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in patients aged 18-45 years with stage I-II HCC who underwent different types of surgery. The SEER database, which is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative databases concerning cancer, was used to estimate the survival benefit of patients who underwent local tumor destruction (LTD), wedge or segmental resection (WSR), lobectomy resection (LR), liver transplantation (LT), or non-surgery. This study discovered surgery offered a survival benefit compared with non-surgery for young patients with stage I-II HCC. Furtherly, LT is associated with superior survival than WSR, LR and LTD in those patients. Our results facilitate the selection of surgical strategies.

Hepatocellular cancer is the 6th most common seen disease in the world and the 3rd in cancer-related deaths. Liver transplantation is the primary curative treatment of HCC, as it eliminates liver cancer and underlying cirrhosis. However, liver transplantation is not offered to every HCC patient, since advanced stage HCC patients are lost with tumor recurrence early after liver transplantation. The Milan criteria, which are accepted worldwide, are the patient selection criteria that we have to follow in cadaver-to-liver transplantation for HCC in our country. However, as the Milan criteria are very strict criteria, it pushes patients out of liver transplantation who exceed the Milan criteria but who can benefit from liver transplantation. Liver transplantation centers all over the world have declared their own criteria under the expanded Milan criteria. In our country, Malatya Criteria have been defined by İnönü University on this subject, and our studies on this subject still continue. When we scan the original articles of all these defined criteria, incomplete data are formed and therefore the strength of the criteria cannot be clearly revealed. For this reason, we aimed to analyze the results of our center and present information about the power of the criteria to the literature.

The purpose of this research study is to find out if a different type of imaging study called contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is as good as, or better than CT or MRI in patients diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after receiving TACE treatment