The efficacy of surgery in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is still controversial whether hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with lymph node invasion should receive surgery treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of surgery (liver resection and local tumor destruction treatments) in HCC patients with regional lymph node metastasis.

Methods

The study utilized data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-18 (SEER-18) cancer registry. Patients for whom the treatment type was not clear or those with distant metastasis or without regional lymph nodule invasion were excluded. For survival analysis, patients with the survival months coded as 0 and 999 were excluded. All 1434 patients were included in the analysis. Among them, 168 patients were treated surgically and the other 1266 received non-s

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7268283 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature