Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is featured by the spontaneously rupture when suffering severe cirrhosis and intratumoral overpressure. It is a fatal complication with an acute mortality. Importantly, it is served as an independent risk factor for peritoneal metastasis (PM) of HCC with poor prognosis. The systematic agents effective to extrahepatic lesions confers modest efficacy towards PM. HIPEC, as a novel strategy, has been proved by overwhelming studies that it is effective to peritoneal malignant tumors. However, there is absence of prospective study of HIPEC efficacy towards HCC.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
68
The patients with srHCC or PM of HCC were randomly allocated to either the HIPEC group or the control group. All of them have received open liver resection and perfusion tubes had been set in the operation. For patients with PM of HCC served operation, we are subject to reach CC score at 0-1 to creating sufficient conditions for HIPEC. Finally, place the HIPEC tubes. Implementation of HIPEC was administered 3times on the 1st, 3rd, 5th days within one week after operation. We used intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion device (BR-TRG-IITM, Bao Rui medical corporation, Guangdong, China) to achieve HIPEC. The abdominal temperature was maintained at 43°C (109°F) by circulating heated saline. The perfusion volume was 3000ml of normal saline, and the chemotherapeutic agent of mitomycin C was 10mg for a 1-hour perfusion period.
West China Hospital
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
RECRUITINGrecurrence-free-survival
the time from the first administration to the date of first recurrence, including local recurrence and PM and distant metastasis, or death for any cause.
Time frame: 2years
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