Comparing the efficacy and safety of local-regional treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal/hepatic vein tumor thrombosis in China: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of different peri-operative regimens using the network meta-analysis for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal/hepatic vein tumor thrombosis. The interested modalities included neoadjuvant three-dimensional radiotherapy (3D-CRT), post-operative intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), post-operative transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), 3DCRT plus TACE and surgery alone.

Methods: PubMed and Cochrane Library electronic databases were systematically searched for eligible studies published up to March 2021.

Toll-like receptor 4 and its associated proteins as prognostic factors for HCC treated by post-radiotherapy surgery.

Locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated by radiotherapy (RT) may be suited for further treatment with surgery. As a critical mediator of the post-RT immune response, Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and its associated proteins may serve as prognostic factors for patients with HCC treated by post-RT surgery. In the present study, a total of 20 patients with HCC treated by post-RT surgery were enrolled.

High dose radiotherapy with image-guided hypo-IMRT for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein and/or inferior vena cava tumor thrombi is more feasible and efficacious than conventional 3D-CRT.

Objective: To compare the efficacies of conventional three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy and image-guided hypofractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatments in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients with portal vein and/or inferior vena cava tumor thrombi.

Methods: A total of 118 hepatocellular carcinoma patients with portal vein and/or inferior vena cava tumor thrombi who received external beam radiation therapy focused on tumor thrombi and intrahepatic tumors were retrospectively reviewed. During the three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy treatments, a median total dose of 54 Gy with a conventional fraction (1.

Radiotherapy treatment of adrenal gland metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma: clinical features and prognostic factors.

Background: The optimal treatment for adrenal metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has not been established. This study analyzed the effects of radiation therapy (RT) for such metastases and identified clinical features and predictors of survival in these patients.

Methods: We retrospectively investigated 55 patients with adrenal metastasis from HCC who had been treated with RT.

Influence of tumor thrombus location on the outcome of external-beam radiation therapy in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with macrovascular invasion.

Purpose: The present study evaluates the influence of portal vein (PV) vs. inferior vena cava (IVC) tumor thrombosis sites on the effectiveness of external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with macrovascular invasion.

Methods And Materials: We retrospectively reviewed 181 HCC patients with PV and/or IVC tumor thrombi who were referred for EBRT at our institution between 2000 and 2009.

Conformal radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of gallbladder: a case report.

Background. Squamous cell carcinoma of the gallbladder is a rare disease with symptoms developing late in its course, so that it often presents as an aggressive tumor with a poor prognosis. Case report.