Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Hepatocellular"

Retrospective data on 50 prospectively-collected HCC patients with beyond-Milan criteria with >6cm tumors were analyzed. 5-year OS of 76.2% was found in patients with both AFP <200 ng/ml and GGT <104 IU/mL with tumors less than 10 cm diameter. Thus, GGT values add to AFP in patient prognosis.

High-risk patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) suffer from a high ratio of recurrence after liver transplantation (LT). Lenvatinib, as a novel targeted drug, has shown an excellent effect in the treatment of advanced HCC, but there is no study on its effect in preventing HCC recurrence in the patients undergoing transplantation. Therefore, to evaluate the role of adjuvant lenvatinib in preventing recurrence of high-risk LT recipients with HBV-related HCC, the investigators retrospectively analyzed 23 high-risk patients consisting of lenvatinib group (n=14) and control group (n=9) with HBV-related HCC who underwent LT. Disease-free survival (DFS) and HCC recurrence of the two groups were compared. The adverse events (AEs) and drug tolerance of lenvatinib were evaluated.

Clinical study planned to demonstrate that the BioTraceIO Lite, available post-procedure, is effective at estimating the area of tissue damage as measured on 24-hour post-procedure (T=24hrs) CECT scan and that it is safe, based on an assessment of device-related Adverse Events. Multi-center (up to 6 investigational sites) prospective single-arm clinical investigation 50 evaluable subjects total stratified by cancer type (primary hepatocellular carcinoma vs. secondary liver metastases).

This study aims to investigate the feasibility and accuracy of Multi-Detector CT angiography acquired before Trans-arterial Chemo-embolization (TACE) in detecting Hepato-cellular carcinoma feeding vessels compared to DSA angiography acquired during TACE.

The investigators established three prospective cohorts of patients with BCLC stage 0-A HCC, based on different surgical approaches (open, laparoscopic and robotic). After 5 years of follow-up, the investigators used propensity score matching (PSM) to reduce selection bias and then compared the long-term oncological outcomes of the three different surgical approaches, which might provide high-level evidence in non-randomized observational studies.

The aim of our study is to analyze pathological analysis of surgically treated aggressive hepatocellular carcinomas after radio-embolization. The investigators aim to demonstrate that a higher dose results in better tumor response while respecting safety conditions, that is, no radiologically induced liver disease.

Background: The association of transcatheter arterial chemotherapy infusion (TAC) with percutaneous ablation (PT) has been introduced as a method to increase the ablative zone. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of PT and TAC performed in a single session for HCCs between 30 and 50 mm or oligonodular up to 30 mm. Methods: Thirty patients with a histologically proven HCC, uninodular between 30 and 50 mm or oligonodular (n≤3) up to 30 mm, treatment-naïve and non-metastatic, received combination treatment ("PT+TAC group"). A "control" group consisted of 34 patients with uninodular HCC up to 30 mm without any poor prognostic criteria treated with PT alone ("PT group").

Conventional transarterial chemoembolization with Doxorubicin (c-TACE) is the gold standard treatment for Hepato Cellular Carcinoma (HCC) stage B (BCLC) / stages A and B (Child-Pugh). Clinical recommendations for cTACE indicate that the doxorubicin solution may be reconstituted in either aqueous solution or iso-osmolar ionic iodinated contrast media. There is no consensus on which solvent should be used. Hence, the clinical evaluation of Lipiodol cTACE would benefit from a standardization in the reconstitution of the drug. In this study, the comparison of the kinetics of distribution of the drug within the tumor micro-environment is expected to allow for comparison of drug solvents. This pilot study aims at evaluating the kinetics of distribution of the drug within the tumor micro-environment, for the two main solvents used in reconstituting the drug, namely normal saline and contrast media. The kinetics of distribution in the tumor will be evaluated primarily through regular biopsy sampling, and secondary with confocal laser endomicroscopy.

This is a retrospective study, all HIV-infected individuals followed up at the three designated HIV clinics in Hong Kong with and without HBV and/or HCV co-infection will be included in the analysis. The incidence and mortality of HCC among HIV-infected individuals with and without HBV/HCV co-infection in an Asian population will be determined.

In patients with primary liver cancer arising from the liver cells, several treatment options are available according to the stage of the disease. Thermal ablation is a treatment modality using the deposition of thermal energy via an ablation probe to locally destroy the tumor tissue. It has been accepted as being equally effective as surgical resection in patients with very small tumors, as well as for patients with more advanced disease who are not surgical candidates or who are awaiting liver transplantation. Treatment success of thermal ablation is linked to the completeness of the tumor ablation and thus to the precision with which the ablation probes can be placed within the tumors. In recent years, novel computer-assister technology has been introduced to augment accuracy in ablation probe positioning, and first reports describing the safety and efficiency of these procedures have been described in the literature. However, very few works describe the oncological outcomes of patients when using this technology for thermal ablation. In this study, the investigators aim to describe local tumor control and the oncological follow-up of patients when using computer-assisted technology for thermal ablation of liver cancer.