Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy Compared With Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolizationin Intermediate-advanced Huge Hepatocellular Carcinoma: a Multicenter Retrospective Study
This study intends to compare the efficacy of transcatheter arterial chemical embolization (TACE) with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) for patients with intermediate-advanced huge hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Clinical diagnosis of primary HCC.
• Age between 18 and 75 years;
• The maximum tumor size ≥10 cm;
• Intermediate-advanced huge HCC, advanced HCC with PVTT type I-III
• limited metastases (≤5).
• Child-Pugh class A or B;
• Eastern Cooperative Group performance status (ECOG) score of 0-1;
• Hemoglobin ≥ 8.5 g/dL Total bilirubin ≤ 30mmol/L Serum albumin ≥ 32 g/L ASL and AST ≤ 5 x upper limit of normal Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal INR ≤ 1.5 or PT/APTT within normal limits Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>1,500/mm3
• Prothrombin time ≤18s or international normalized ratio \< 1.7.