East-West Hepatocellular Carcinoma Study Group

University of Milan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01237132

HCC EWE

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current treatment guidelines of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) of the American and European Associations for the Study of Liver Disease are based on the Barcelona-Clinic-Liver-Cancer classification (BCLC), which does not recommend surgery in patients with large, multinodular and macrovascular invasive disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of hepatic resection in a large retrospective multicentric cohort of patients resected for HCC regardless of the BCLC indications.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
• candidate to liver resection as a curative treatment

Exclusion criteria

• uncertain diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
• uncertain follow-up data