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Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors in young patients after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Authors: Shingo Shimada, Toshiya Kamiyama, Hideki Yokoo, Kenji Wakayama, Yosuke Tsuruga, Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Hirofumi Kamachi, Akinobu Taketomi

Published in: World Journal of Surgical Oncology | Issue 1/2013

Abstract

Background

The aim of this study was to analyze the clinicopathological characteristics and the prognostic factors for survival and recurrence of young patients who had undergone hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Methods

Between 1990 and 2010, 31 patients aged 40 years or younger (younger patient group) among 811 consecutive patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who had undergone primary hepatectomy were analyzed with regard to patient factors, including liver function, tumor factors and operative factors. The clinicopathological characteristics of the younger patients were compared with those of patients over the age of 40 (older patient group). Then the prognostic factors of the younger patients were analyzed. Continuous variables were expressed as the means ± standard deviation and compared using the χ² test for categorical variables. Overall survival and recurrence-free survival rates were determined by the Kaplan-Meier method and analyzed by the log-rank test. The Cox proportional hazards model was used for multivariate analysis.

Results

In the younger patients, the rates of HBs-antigen-positivity, high alpha-fetoprotein, portal invasion, intrahepatic metastasis, large tumors, low indocyanin green retention rate at 15 minutes, and anatomical resection were significantly higher than the same measures in the older patients. The five-year overall survival rate of the young patients was 49.6%. The prognostic factors of survival were HCV-antibody-positivity and low albumin status. Prognostic factors of recurrence were multiple tumors and the presence of portal invasion.

Conclusions

In younger patients, survival appeared to be primarily affected by liver function, while recurrence was affected by tumor factors. Young patients with hepatocellular carcinoma should be aggressively treated with hepatectomy due to their good pre-surgical liver function.

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Title: Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors in young patients after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma
Authors: Shingo Shimada
Toshiya Kamiyama
Hideki Yokoo
Kenji Wakayama
Yosuke Tsuruga
Tatsuhiko Kakisaka
Hirofumi Kamachi
Akinobu Taketomi
Publication date: 01-12-2013
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: World Journal of Surgical Oncology / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1477-7819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-52

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Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors in young patients after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma

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