Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Hepatocellular"

The purpose of this study is to determine whether combined radiofrequency ablation and transcatheter chemoembolization (TACE) result in better survival outcomes than TACE alone in patients with HCC and portal vein tumor thrombus.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PIK-PD-1 Cells in the treatment of advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Methods: This study designs a novel therapy using PIK-PD-1 cells. 40 patients with advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma will be enrolled. They are randomly divided into dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells (DC-PMAT) group and PIK-PD-1 cells group. Both DC-PMAT treatment and PIK-PD-1 cells treatment will be performed every 3 weeks with a total of three periods. The mail clinical indicators are Progression-Free-Survival and Overall Survival.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of radical surgery combined with dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells in reducing the recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer Methods: This study designs a novel therapy using dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells. 60 postoperative patients of hepatocellular carcinoma will be enrolled. They are randomly divided into postoperative routine therapy group and dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells combined with postoperative routine therapy group. Dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells treatments will be performed every 3 weeks with a total of three periods. The mail clinical indicators are Progression-Free-Survival and Overall Survival.

Primary Outcome Measures: - To compare the progression free survival(PFS) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) treated with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TACE) with or without Huachansu, and the correlation between PFS and expression of peripheral Na+/K+-ATPase α3 family. Secondary Outcome Measures: - To compare the overall survival(OS), objective response rate(ORR), and side effects of treating HCC with TACE plus Huachansu or TACE alone. Exploratory Outcome Measures: - To evaluate the correlation between prognosis and expression of peripheral Na+/K+-ATPase α3 family.

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether survival of patients who underwent TACE with unresectable HCC can benefit from intermediate-levels of embolization.

Although it is commonly accepted that antiviral therapy should be commenced before or during hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment if the patients have high viral loads and elevated ALT or total bilirubin values with signs of cirrhosis, the dilemma exists when HBV DNA and liver function (such as ALT, AST, TBIL) remains low level. Whether antiviral therapy make sense or not in these patients with no signs of hepatitis or high viral replication remains unclear, especially for the relatively advanced stage HCC patients receiving TACE. Thus, the investigators carried out this prospective control study to compare the survivals for patients after TACE between with or without antiviral therapy.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most commonly malignant tumors around the world and causes death of about 600000~1000000 people each year. Since 1990s, hepatic carcinoma has become the second carcinoma killer in China. Surgical resection or liver transplantation is the only method possibly able to cure hepatic carcinoma. However, due to multiple tumors or poor hepatic function reserve in cirrhosis, surgical treatment is suitable for only a small portion of patients (11.9%-30.1%). Therefore, in clinical practice, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) or transarterial embolization (TAE) is a preferential and standard treatment of unresectable advanced hepatic carcinoma and has notable advantages in controlling local tumors of the liver. Hepatic arterial infusion of oxaliplatin after TACE can significantly increase the local doses of chemotherapeutic agents in the liver, kill micrometastases and residual foci after embolization and demonstrate outstanding efficacy for treating concomitant portal and hepatic vein tumor thrombi. S-1 is a chemotherapeutic agent with convenient use and definite efficacy and, when used concomitantly with TACE, theoretically can not only effectively control intrahepatic foci but also prevent and control extrahepatic metastatic foci. However, this hasn't been verified in clinical application. This study is intended to investigate efficacy and safety of the combination treatment so as to provide a more effective and safety way for treating patients with advanced hepatic carcinoma (Barcelona stage-C patients with concomitant portal vein tumor thrombi or extrahepatic metastasis).

The purpose of the study is to determine whether transarterial chemoembolization containing arsenic trioxide is safe and effective in the treatment of intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer in the world. Partial hepatectomy is still considered as the conventional therapy for HCC. Intrahepatic recurrence of HCC after partial hepatectomy is common and was reported to be more than 77% within 5 years after surgery. Repeat hepatectomy is an effective treatment for intrahepatic HCC recurrence, with a 5-year survival rate of 19.4-56%. This is comparable to the survival after initial hepatectomy for HCC. Unfortunately, repeat hepatectomy could be carried out only in a small proportion of patients with HCC recurrence (10.4-31%), either because of the poor functional liver reserve or because of widespread intrahepatic recurrence. In the past two decades, percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (PRFA) has emerged as a new treatment modality and has attracted great interest because of its effectiveness and safety for small HCC (≤ 5.0 cm). Studies using PRFA to treat recurrent HCC after partial hepatectomy reported a 3-year survival rate of 62-68%, which is comparable to those achieved by surgery. PRFA is particularly suitable to treat recurrent HCC after partial hepatectomy because these tumors are usually detected when they are small and PRFA causes the least deterioration of liver function in the patients. Our previous retrospective study demonstrated that RFA was comparable to re-resection for recurrent HCC, and our recent RCT showed that RFA combined with TACE is superior to RFA for HCC ≤7.0cm. So our hypothesis is that RFA combined with TACE is superior to re-resection for recurrent small HCC. The aim of this retrospective study is to compare the outcome of reresection with TACE+RFA for small recurrent HCC after partial hepatectomy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Dendritic and Cytokine-induced Killer Cells (DC-CIK) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).