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本帖最后由 StephenW 于 2015-11-24 16:50 编辑
Peginterferon is superior to nucleos(t)ide analogs for prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B - Author Affiliations - 1Liver Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- 2Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- ↵*Corresponding author: Chau-Ting Yeh, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Liver Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 199, Tung Hwa North Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Tel: 886-3-3281200 ext 8125, Fax: 886-3-3282824, E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract
Background. Clinical factors associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been extensively studied in antiviral-treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected patients, but not in treatment-experienced patients. Due to the wide availability of antiviral agents which effectively suppressed HBV replication, we investigated HCC risk factors in treatment-experienced patients.
Methods. A cohort of 330 patients receiving pre-therapeutic liver biopsy was included to analyze HCC incidence in relationship with clinical parameters. Ultra-deep sequencing of the viral genome was performed on 11 entecavir- and peginterferon-treated patients.
Results. Initial univariate/multivariate explorations indicated that cirrhosis and antiviral-treatment methods were independently associated with HCC occurrence. The peginterferon-experienced patients had a lower HCC incidence than the nucleos(t)ide analog-treated patients (P=0.011). The peginterferon and entecavir monotherapy groups also differed in HCC incidence (P=0.018). Analysis of baseline-matched subgroups concurred with cohort analysis (peginterferon-experienced versus nucleotide-analog-treated, P=0.009; peginterferon versus entecavir, P=0.022). Viral loads of entecavir-treated patients were constantly suppressed lower than those of peginterferon-treated patients (P<0.001). Oncogenic surface antigen truncation mutations were detected in entecavir-treated patients with HCC but not in peginterferon-treated patients (P=0.015).
Conclusions. Treatment by peginterferon was associated with a lower HCC incidence compared with nucleos(t)ide-analog treatment in chronic HBV infection.
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