Efficacy of postoperative adjuvant hepatic artery infusion chemotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma in microvascular invasion: a propensity-matched score.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and microvascular invasion (MVI) still have high rates of recurrence and poor survival outcomes after radical resection. This study aims to investigate the effect of postoperative adjuvant hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (PA-HAIC) on the recurrence of HCC patients with MVI after radical liver resection (LR).

Materials and methods

This study retrospectively evaluated patients with HCC who underwent LR with MVI at the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2024. The recurrence-free survival (RFS) of patients who received PA-HAIC was compared with that of patients who only received LR by propensity score- matching (PSM), and su

SUBMITTER: Feng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12531241 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature