Effect of surgical liver resection on circulating tumor cells in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study explored the effect of liver resection on perioperative circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and found that the prognostic significance of surgery was associated with changes in CTC counts in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods

One hundred thirty-nine patients with HCC were consecutively enrolled. The time-points for collecting blood were one day before operation and three days after operation. CTCs in the peripheral blood were detected by the CellSearch™ System.

Results

Both CTC detection incidence and mean CTC counts showed greater increases postoperatively (54%, mean 1.54 cells) than preoperatively (43%, mean 1.13 cells). The postoperative CTC counts increased in 41.7% of patients, decreased in 25.2% of patients and did not change

SUBMITTER: Yu JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6102841 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature