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ArticleJournal of hepatocellular carcinoma2024

Development and Validation of a Nomogram to Predict the Recurrence of HCC Patients Undergoing CECT After Ablation.

Wenying Qiao, Zibo Fan, Qi Wang, Ronghua Jin, Caixia Hu

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Article in Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Wenying Qiao *Interventional Therapy Center for Oncology, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-9687-4073
Zibo Fan *Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Qi Wang *Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Ronghua JinBeijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Caixia HuInterventional Therapy Center for Oncology, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Capital Medical University · CN

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Abstract

Purpose: We first aimed to compare the prognostic difference between the application of Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) and Non-enhanced computed tomography (NECT) in hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) patients with early-stage immediately after ablation. We secondly propose to explore the risk factors for recurrence in patients undergoing CECT, and then develop a nomogram. Patients and Methods: Clinical data were collected from 711 patients who received TACE combined with ablation from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2022, at Beijing Youan Hospital. According to the imaging methods applied after ablation, patients were categorized into the CECT group and the NECT group and then were compared by Kaplan-Meier (KM) curves. Lasso regression is used to screen risk factors for recurrence and the nomogram was plotted. Finally, discrimination, calibration plot, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to measure the performance of the nomogram. Results: The KM curve indicates that recurrence-free survival (RFS) was longer in the CECT group than in the NECT group (HR =0.759, 95% CI 0.606-0.951, P=0.016). Six variables were selected to construct the nomogram. 1-, 3-, and 5-year area under the curves (AUCs) (0.867, 0.731, 0.773 and 0.896, 0.784, 0.773) of the training and validation cohorts proved the good predictive performance of the nomogram. Calibration curves and DCA curves suggested accuracy and net clinical benefit rates. The nomogram enabled to classify of patients into three groups according to the risk of recurrence: low risk, intermediate risk, and high risk. There was a statistically significant difference in RFS between the two groups in the training and validation cohorts (P<0.001). Conclusion: We demonstrated that HCC patients who underwent CECT evaluation after ablation had a better prognosis, making this evaluation method highly recommended for guiding clinical management.

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contrast-enhanced computed tomographyhepatocellular carcinomarecurrence-free survivalrisk factorstranscatheter arterial chemoembolization

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