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ArticleJournal of oncology2021

The Efficacy of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Distant Organ Metastasis.

Lei Chen, Zhiwen Wang, Songlin Song, Tao Sun, Yanqiao Ren, Weihua Zhang, Mingfu Wang, Yiming Liu, Chuansheng Zheng

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Article in Journal of oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Lei ChenDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0018-9993
Zhiwen WangDepartment of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
Songlin SongDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
Tao SunDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
Yanqiao RenDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
Weihua ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.
Mingfu WangDepartment of Radiology, The Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430033, China.
Yiming LiuDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-1345
Chuansheng ZhengDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2435-1417

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecently, radiotherapy has been used in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, there is no study analyzing the efficacy of radiotherapy in cases of advanced HCC. The objective of this investigation was to determine the efficacy of radiotherapy in patients with HCC invading distant organs.

methodsThe data of 2342 patients diagnosed between 2010 and 2015 with HCC invading distant organs were extracted from the SEER database. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to reduce selection bias.

resultsBefore PSM, the median overall survival (mOS) and median cancer-specific survival (mCSS) in the radiotherapy group (mOS = 5 months, 95% CI: 4.5-5.5; mCSS = 5 months, 95% CI: 4.4-5.6) were longer than those in the nonradiotherapy group (mOS = 3 months, 95% CI: 2.8-3.2; mCSS = 3 months, 95% CI: 2.8-3.2; both

conclusionHCC patients with metastases to distant organs obtain survival benefit from radiotherapy, particularly patients with bone metastases and multiorgan metastases.

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