Ablation has been an effective therapy in treating intrathoracic metastases. However, for hepatocellular carcinoma with pulmonary oligometastasis, ablation of metastases remains relatively unexplored and still needs clinical evidence.
Systemic therapy is the standard treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with metastasis. However, metastases with limited number (oligometastasis) can represent a subtype and transition point between localized disease and widespread metastases. Thus, eliminating metastases could be advantageous and beneficial to the prognosis if feasible and permitted. Image-guided ablation therapy, such as microwave ablation (MWA), radiofrequency ablation (RFA), and cryoablation, has attracted great interest as a minimally invasive approach against intrathoracic metastases. Recently, ablation has been used on patients with pulmonary metastases from various cancers. This technique yields high proportions of sustained complete responses and is associated with relatively low morbidity. This multicenter study focuses on the management of ablation of oligometastasis therapy combined with systemic therapy.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
470
Ablation including (microwave ablation, radiofrequency ablation, cryoblation), this surgery was conducted under CT guidence. The pulmonary was completely ablated.
Paticipants received systemic therapy according the instructions.
Chinese PLA General hospital
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
RECRUITINGProgression-Free-Survival
Progression was defined as progressive disease by independent radiologic review
Time frame: 12 months
Overall survival (OS)
OS is the length of time from the date of inclusion until death from any cause.
Time frame: 24 months
Objective response rate (ORR)
ORR, as determined based on tumor response according to RECIST 1.1, is defined as the proportion of all included patients whose best overall response is either a complete response or partial response.
Time frame: 12 months
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