Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38156124›Full record

ArticleCureus2023

"Six-and-Twelve" Prognostic Score in Transarterial Chemoembolization-Treated Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients.

Johan S Lopera Valle, Daniel F Puello Correa, Emilio Sanín

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Johan S Lopera ValleInterventional Radiology, San Vicente Fundación University Hospital, Medellín, COL.
Daniel F Puello CorreaInterventional Radiology, San Ignacio University Hospital, Bogotá, COL.
Emilio SanínInterventional Radiology, Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital, Medellín, COL.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the overall survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients who qualify for transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) using the "six-and-twelve" prognostic score. The research was conducted on a patient cohort between 2009 and 2019. MATERIALS AND

methodsA retrospective cohort study was conducted, involving patients diagnosed with unresectable hepatocarcinoma, Barcelona

resultsA total of 90 patients were included in the study, with a median age of 69 years (interquartile range (IQR): 62-77). Among the patients, 61.1% had a tumor burden of six or less. The overall survival rate was found to have a median of 28.4 months (IQR: 26.3-30.5), with survival rates at one, two, and three years being 84.7%, 55.2%, and 29.4%, respectively. It was observed that mortality increased in proportion to tumor burden, and this difference was statistically significant.

conclusionThe use of tumor burden, with cut-off points of six and 12, as a prognostic score proved to be a valuable tool for predicting mortality in the studied cohort.

Indexed as

hepatocellular carcinomainterventional radiology guided embolizationpronosticsurvivaltherapeutic chemoembolization

Identifiers

PMID38156124
PMCPMC10754221

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.