Journal article
Tissue Diagnosis Is Associated With Worse Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A National Cancer Database Analysis
The American surgeon, Vol.88(6), pp.1234-1243
06/2022
DOI: 10.1177/0003134821991983
PMID: 33830824
Abstract
Biopsy to achieve tissue diagnosis (TD) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risks needle tract seeding. With chest wall and peritoneal recurrences reported, TD could worsen cancer outcomes. We investigated HCC outcomes after TD compared to clinical diagnosis (CD), hypothesizing that TD adversely affects overall survival (OS).
The National Cancer Database (NCDB) Participant User File for liver cancer was reviewed, including patients with nonmetastatic HCC treated with major hepatectomy or transplantation. Clinical diagnosis patients were matched 1:1 to TD patients per propensity score. Survival was examined in the unmatched and matched cohorts.
Of 172 283 cases, 16 366 met inclusion criteria. Mean age was 60.8 years, 12 100 (73.9%) were male, and 48.4% of patients received hepatectomies. Clinical diagnosis occurred in 70.4% of cases, and 29.6% underwent TD. Cox regression confirmed the diagnostic method as an independent predictor of OS in addition to age, Charlson-Deyo score, grade, delay of surgery, lymphovascular invasion, nodal stage, and procedure type, favoring transplantation over hepatectomy. After propensity matching on these factors, 4251 patients were matched from each group. In the matched cohort, patients with TD had a significantly lower OS than patients with CD (median: 65.5 vs. 85.6 ± 2.7 months,
< .001). The corresponding 5-year survival was lower in the TD group (47.6% vs. 60.9%
< .001).
Hepatocellular carcinoma patients with preoperative TD had decreased OS compared to CD, which persisted after propensity matching. This study supports avoiding biopsy for HCC whenever possible.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Tissue Diagnosis Is Associated With Worse Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A National Cancer Database Analysis
- Creators
- Fadi S Dahdaleh - Department of Surgical Oncology, 5698Edward-Elmhurst Health, Naperville, IL, USA.Samer A Naffouje - Moffitt Cancer CenterScott K Sherman - Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of MedicineSivesh K Kamarajah - Newcastle upon Tyne HospitalGeorge I Salti - University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American surgeon, Vol.88(6), pp.1234-1243
- DOI
- 10.1177/0003134821991983
- PMID
- 33830824
- ISSN
- 0003-1348
- eISSN
- 1555-9823
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: T32#CA078586
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2022
- Academic Unit
- Surgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984322926502771
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