uHCC imposes a substantial disease burden in China and the Asia-Pacific region. Atezo+Bev is an important first-line regimen for patients who have not received prior systemic therapy; however, not all patients achieve adequate and durable tumor control. In clinical practice, ablation, radiotherapy, or transarterial therapy is often added to Atezo+Bev to intensify intrahepatic disease control. The indications, timing, efficacy, and risk of liver-function impairment vary across LRTs. Most existing studies report average treatment effects and often use TACE as a fixed backbone, and therefore do not directly identify which patients receiving Atezo+Bev should receive early LRTs. Using target trial emulation and HTE analysis, this study will integrate baseline clinical variables with pretreatment contrast-enhanced CT/MRI features to estimate the CATE of early LRT initiation and identify patients likely to achieve greater survival benefit.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
2,658
Zhongda hospital
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Overall survival
With OS as the primary outcome, to estimate the overall treatment effect and CATE of initiating LRTs within 60 days after Atezo+Bev initiation versus not initiating LRTs within 60 days; and to integrate baseline clinical variables with multiregional radiomic, dynamic/habitat, and deep representation features from pretreatment contrast-enhanced CT/MRI to develop and validate an HTE decision model.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Model calibration
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Benefit ranking
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
PFS/mPFS
Defined as the time from index date to the first occurrence of disease progression or death from any cause (whichever occurs first), as determined by the investigator according to RECIST v1.1 or mRECIST.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
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