Tenofovir for chronic HBV reduces risk for hepatocellular carcinoma
July 16, 2018
In patients with chronic hepatitis B infection, treatment with tenofovir disoproxil may significantly reduce the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma, according to study findings published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Among hundreds of patients included in the study, tenofovir disoproxil (TDF) was significantly associated with an 8-year hepatocellular carcinoma cumulative (HCC) incidence rate reduction among cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients, Mindie H. Nguyen, MD, MAS, professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at Stanford University Medical Center, and colleagues reported.
“Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) affects approximately 250 million people worldwide,” Nguyen and colleagues wrote. “While mostly endemic to Asia and Africa, CHB is also prevalent in the United States among many immigrant groups and has been estimated by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to affect approximately 0.8 to 1.4 million persons.”
According to the study, data concerning liver-related outcomes associated with TDF are limited in the Asian population. Nguyen and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of 6,914 CHB monoinfected adults — older than 18 years — who had not undergone transplantation surgery from six U.S. referral, community medical centers from 2000 to 2016 and the Taiwan community-based REVEAL-HBV cohort.
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Initially, 774 patients received TDF therapy, whereas 6,140 were untreated. Nguyen and colleagues balanced the groups using age, sex, hepatitis B e-antigen, HBV DNA, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), baseline cirrhosis state and follow-up time to match 591 patients in the treated and nontreated groups. After propensity score matching, the study population was on average 44.84 +/- 13.09 years old, 59.31% male and 95.43% Asian.
In the untreated group, Nguyen and colleagues determined that the 8-year cumulative HCC incidence was significantly higher at 20.13% compared with 4.69% in the treated group (P < 0.0001). According to the researchers, cirrhosis was a significant predictor for HCC (adjusted HR = 5.36; 95% CI, 2.73-10.51). When adjusting for age, sex, HBV DNA, ALT and study site, TDF therapy was associated with a 77% HCC risk reduction in patients with cirrhosis (aHR = 0.23; 95% CI, 0.56-0.92). Additionally, patients without cirrhosis receiving TDF had a 73% HCC risk reduction (aHR = 0.27; 95% CI, 0.07-0.98).
“Our findings confirm that TDF for Asian patients with CHB is an appropriate and beneficial treatment for cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic CHB patients with active disease,” Nguyen and colleagues wrote. “We encourage further research in other ethnicities at risk for CHB to determine how these findings relate to other groups of patients.”– by Marley Ghizzone
Disclosures: Nguyen reports receiving research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen Pharmaceutical, National Cancer Institute, Pfizer, B.K. Kee Foundation and Asian Health Foundation and serving as an advisory board member or consultant for Dynavax Laboratories, Gilead Sciences, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Please see the study for all other authors’ relevant financial disclosures. 作者: StephenW 时间: 2018-7-16 21:41