Song Myeong Jun, Bae Si Hyun
Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Korean J Intern Med. 2014 Mar;29(2):149-55. doi: 10.3904/kjim.2014.29.2.149. Epub 2014 Feb 27.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. The only curative treatment modalities for HCC are surgery, percutaneous ablation, and liver transplantation. Unfortunately, the majority of patients have unresectable disease at diagnosis. Therefore, effective treatment options are needed for patients with advanced HCC. The current standard treatment for patients with advanced HCC, according to the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging system, is the multikinase inhibitor sorafenib. Other alternative therapies are required, due to the limited treatment response to, and tolerance of, this molecular target agent. Clinical trials of hepatic artery infusion chemotherapy, radioembolization, and multimodal treatments have shown favorable results in advanced HCC patients. This article introduces new treatment modalities for advanced HCC and discusses future therapeutic possibilities.
肝细胞癌(HCC)是全球最常见的癌症之一。HCC唯一的根治性治疗方式是手术、经皮消融和肝移植。不幸的是,大多数患者在诊断时已处于不可切除阶段。因此,晚期HCC患者需要有效的治疗选择。根据巴塞罗那临床肝癌分期系统,晚期HCC患者目前的标准治疗是多激酶抑制剂索拉非尼。由于这种分子靶向药物的治疗反应和耐受性有限,还需要其他替代疗法。肝动脉灌注化疗、放射性栓塞和多模式治疗的临床试验在晚期HCC患者中已显示出良好效果。本文介绍了晚期HCC的新治疗方式,并探讨了未来的治疗可能性。