Liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma beyond the BCLC: are multinodular disease, portal hypertension, and portal system invasion real contraindications?

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2022
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AME PUBLISHING COMPANY
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JOURNAL OF GASTROINTESTINAL ONCOLOGY, v.13, n.6, p.3123-3134, 2022
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Background: Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) is a recognized guideline to standardize treatment allocation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, many centers criticize its restrictive liver resection recommendations and have published good results after more liberal hepatectomy indications. The objective is to evaluate the results of HCC resection in a single center, with a more liberal indication for resection than proposed by the BCLC guideline. It was performed a retrospective cohort study including all patients who underwent liver resection for HCC in a single center between April 2008 and November 2018. Methods: The results of 150 patients who underwent hepatectomy were evaluated and compared facing both 2010 and 2018 BCLC guidelines. Overall and disease-free survival after resection in patients with none, one, two, or three of the risk factors, as proposed by the BCLC, as contraindications to resection (portal hypertension, portal invasion, and more than one nodule) were analyzed. Results: Nodule size and presence of portal invasion alone did not affect prognosis. If the BCLC 2010 and 2018 guidelines were followed, 46.7% and 26.7% of the patients, respectively, would not have received potentially curative treatment. The median overall and disease-free survival for patients with one BCLC contraindication factor were 43.3 and 15.1 months, respectively. The presence of two risk factors had a negative impact on overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS), although some patients had long-term survival. The only patient with the three risk factors had a poor outcome. Conclusions: Selected patients with one BCLC contraindication factor may undergo resection with good results, whereas those with two factors should be allocated for hepatectomy only in favorable scenarios. Patients with the three risk factors do not appear to benefit from resection.
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Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer guideline (BCLC guideline), hepatectomy, Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver resection, treatment
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