TY - JOUR
T1 - Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma
T2 - A proposal of a prognostic scoring system
AU - Iwatsuki, Shunzaburo
AU - Dvorchik, Igor
AU - Marsh, J. Wallis
AU - Madariaga, Juan R.
AU - Carr, Brian
AU - Fung, John J.
AU - Starzl, Thomas E.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Background: The current staging system of hepatocellular carcinoma established by the International Union Against Cancer and the American Joint Committee on Cancer does not necessarily predict the outcomes after hepatic resection or transplantation. Study Design: Various clinical and pathologic risk factors for tumor recurrence were examined on 344 consecutive patients who received hepatic transplantation in the presence of nonfibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma to establish a reliable risk scoring system. Results: Multivariate analysis identified three factors as independently significant poor prognosticators: 1) bilobarly distributed tumors, 2) size of the greatest tumor (2 to 5 cm and > 5 cm), and 3) vascular invasion (microscopic and macroscopic). Prognostic risk score (PRS) of each patient was calculated from the relative risks of multivariate analysis. The patients were grouped into five grades of tumor recurrence risk: grade 1: PRS = 0 to <7.5; grade 2: PRS = 7.5 to ≤ 11.0; grade 3: PRS > 11.0 to 15.0; grade 4: PRS ≥ 15.0; and grade 5: positive node, metastasis, or margin. The proposed PRS system correlated extremely well with tumor-free survival after liver transplantation (100%, 61%, 40%, 5%, and 0%, from grades 1 to 5, respectively, at 5 years), but current pTNM staging did not. Conclusions: 1) Patients with grades 1 and 2 are effectively treated with liver transplantation, 2) patients with grades 4 and 5 are poor candidates for liver transplantation, and 3) patients with grade 1 do not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. (C) 2000 by the American College of Surgeons.
AB - Background: The current staging system of hepatocellular carcinoma established by the International Union Against Cancer and the American Joint Committee on Cancer does not necessarily predict the outcomes after hepatic resection or transplantation. Study Design: Various clinical and pathologic risk factors for tumor recurrence were examined on 344 consecutive patients who received hepatic transplantation in the presence of nonfibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma to establish a reliable risk scoring system. Results: Multivariate analysis identified three factors as independently significant poor prognosticators: 1) bilobarly distributed tumors, 2) size of the greatest tumor (2 to 5 cm and > 5 cm), and 3) vascular invasion (microscopic and macroscopic). Prognostic risk score (PRS) of each patient was calculated from the relative risks of multivariate analysis. The patients were grouped into five grades of tumor recurrence risk: grade 1: PRS = 0 to <7.5; grade 2: PRS = 7.5 to ≤ 11.0; grade 3: PRS > 11.0 to 15.0; grade 4: PRS ≥ 15.0; and grade 5: positive node, metastasis, or margin. The proposed PRS system correlated extremely well with tumor-free survival after liver transplantation (100%, 61%, 40%, 5%, and 0%, from grades 1 to 5, respectively, at 5 years), but current pTNM staging did not. Conclusions: 1) Patients with grades 1 and 2 are effectively treated with liver transplantation, 2) patients with grades 4 and 5 are poor candidates for liver transplantation, and 3) patients with grade 1 do not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. (C) 2000 by the American College of Surgeons.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1072-7515(00)00688-8
DO - 10.1016/S1072-7515(00)00688-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 11030244
AN - SCOPUS:0033809264
VL - 191
SP - 389
EP - 394
JO - International abstracts of surgery
JF - International abstracts of surgery
SN - 1072-7515
IS - 4
ER -