Ueda Hiroki, Fukuchi Hiroko, Tanaka Chigusa
Department of Chemotherapy, Wakayama Medical University Oncology Center, Wakayama City, Wakayama 641-8509, Japan.
Oncol Lett. 2012 Feb;3(2):259-263. doi: 10.3892/ol.2011.469. Epub 2011 Nov 2.
The prognosis of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains poor, particularly for patients with portal vein tumor thrombosis. Chemotherapy is one of the most significant treatment options for patients with advanced HCC not indicated for hepatic resection, percutaneous ablation and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization. Systemic chemotherapy does not play a central role in the treatment of HCC due to the issue of low sensitivity for chemotherapeutic agents and the difficulties in administering a sufficient dose due to chronic liver dysfunction. Therefore, patients with advanced HCC are usually treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC), which is increasingly used as an approach to advanced HCC in Japan. HAIC provides moderate therapeutic efficacy and survival benefit with substantially tolerable toxicity profiles in patients with advanced HCC.
晚期肝细胞癌(HCC)的预后仍然很差,尤其是对于伴有门静脉癌栓的患者。化疗是不适用于肝切除、经皮消融和经动脉化疗栓塞的晚期HCC患者最重要的治疗选择之一。由于化疗药物敏感性低以及慢性肝功能障碍导致难以给予足够剂量,全身化疗在HCC治疗中并不起核心作用。因此,晚期HCC患者通常接受肝动脉灌注化疗(HAIC),在日本,HAIC越来越多地被用作晚期HCC的一种治疗方法。HAIC在晚期HCC患者中具有适度的治疗效果和生存获益,且毒性反应基本可以耐受。