Adjuvant adenovirus-mediated delivery of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase administration improves outcome of liver transplantation in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Adjuvant adenovirus-mediated delivery of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase administration improves outcome of liver transplantation in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
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辅助腺病毒介导的单纯疱疹病毒胸苷激酶给药可改善晚期肝细胞癌患者肝移植的结果
DOI:
10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-0499
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发表时间:
2007-10-01
影响因子:
11.5
通讯作者:
Ma, Ding
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作者:
Li, Ning;Zhou, Jianfeng;Ma, Ding
Purpose: Previous poor results of liver transplantation (LT) have been confirmed in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Adenovi rus- mediated delivery of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (ADV-TK) therapy is an established adjuvant treatment in cancer, and we evaluated its potential as an adjuvant treatment for HCC patients who underwent LT.Experimental Design: Forty-five HCC patients with tumors >5 cm in diameter participated in the study over a follow-up period of 50 months. Among these patients, 22 received LTonly, and 23 received LT combined with ADV-TK therapy. All HCC patients enrolled in this study had tumors >5 cm in diameter and no metastasis in lungs or bones was detected by computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans.Results: The recurrence-free survival and the overall survival in the LT plus ADV-TK therapy group were 43.5% and 69.6%, respectively, at 3 years; both values were significantly higher than those in the LT-only group (9.1% and 19.9%, respectively). In the nonvascular invasion subgroup, overall survival was 100% and recurrence-free survival was 83.3% in the patients receiving LT plus ADV-TK, significantly higher than the patients receiving LTonly.Conclusions: HCC patients with no vascular invasion could be selected for ILT followed by adjuvant ADV-TK therapy, regardless of intrahepatic huge or diffuse tumor. We propose that the current criteria for ILT based on tumor size may be expanded if accompanied by ADV-TK therapy due to improved prognosis.