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Clinical features and outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma in Caucasian cirrhotic patients on long‐term analogue therapy for hepatitis B
A. Loglio
M. Iavarone
G. Grossi
M. Viganò
MG. Rumi
F. Facchetti
G. Lunghi
A. Sangiovanni
M. Colombo
P. Lampertico
First published: 19 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14848
The Handling Editor for this article was Professor Peter Hayes, and it was accepted for publication after full peer‐review.
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Summary
Background
Long‐term oral nucleos(t)ide analogue (NUC) therapy in hepatitis B virus (HBV)‐related compensated cirrhotics prevents clinical decompensation but not hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development.
Aims
To define the clinical features and outcomes of HCC in long‐term NUC‐treated HBV patients.
Methods
All HCCs developing between 2005 and 2016 in NUC‐treated HBV patients under surveillance were studied, excluding those that occurred within the first 6 months of therapy. Clinical features of HCC, alpha faetoprotein (AFP) patterns and patients' outcome were studied.
Results
Seventy‐six HCC patients were included. Median age was 67 (40‐83) years, 84% males, 96% Caucasian, 95% HBeAg‐negative, 96% with undetectable HBV DNA, 83% with normal ALT levels, and 92% with compensated cirrhosis. Median serum AFP levels were 4 (1‐3615) ng/mL (>7 ng/mL in 36%). HCC was monofocal in 78%, had a median diameter of 20 (6‐57) mm and was in its early stage in 92% which allowed potentially curative treatments in 78% (39% ablation, 28% surgical resection, 11% liver transplantation). Overall, a complete response was obtained in 61 (80%) patients: in 40 after a first‐line treatment, in 3 after the second–line treatment, in 2 after the third‐line treatment, while 16 underwent liver transplantation (8 as second line). During 45 (7‐144) months after HCC diagnosis, 19 patients died, 84% from HCC progression. The median time to recurrence was 20.2 (3‐53) months, and the cumulative 5‐year liver‐related survival was 74%.
Conclusions
HCCs developing in patients under long‐term NUC treatment were single, small tumours, amenable to curative therapies able to confer excellent 5‐year survival rates.
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Volume48, Issue4
August 2018
Pages 431-439
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