Number of subsequent treatments and time to recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Authors

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Juan Jose Juarez

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Juan Jose Juarez , Vaibhav Birda , Santiago Sucre , Esteban Garita , Kevin Pacheco-Barrios , Rodrigo Paredes , Andrea J. Bullock , Ammar Sarwar , Mary Linton Bounetheau Peters

Organizations

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Cambridge, MA

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often managed with locoregional therapies including surgical resection, ablation, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE), and selective internal radiation therapy (Y90). Most patients require multiple treatments over several years due to ongoing development of new lesions, distinct from other cancer types. Our project aims to analyze this treatment trajectory and the impact of treatment selection. Here we present an interim analysis focusing on the number of subsequent therapies and time to first recurrence (TTR). Methods: We identified 202 patients newly diagnosed with HCC between 2019-2021 who were seen in the BIDMC Liver Tumor Multidisciplinary Clinic. Complete abstraction of medical records was performed in 51 patients to date. Our primary outcome was of the number of subsequent therapies depending on the selected first-line locoregional therapy. Incidence risk ratios (IRR) were obtained via a crude and adjusted (age, gender, race, Child Pugh) linear regression model. Ablation was used as the reference treatment. Secondary outcomes included survival analysis of TTR, overall survival (OS) and time to initiation of systemic therapy. TTR was defined as the appearance of new lesions, excluding residual disease. Results: Mean age at diagnosis was 65 years old, 73% were male, and 92% ECOG 0. 37 patients out of 50 had recurrence, almost all local (97%). The total number of subsequent therapies received was 110; the most common treatment received on first recurrence was ablation (59%) followed by Y90 (24%). Patients who received TACE were more likely to undergo a higher number of subsequent therapies in both the unadjusted (IRR 2.51, p<0.001, 95%CI 1.6-3.9) and adjusted analysis (IRR 4.43 p<0.001, 95%CI 2.5-8.1) with 4.4 (2-9) mean subsequent treatments when compared to ablation with a mean number of subsequent treatments of 1.47 (0-7). Y90 had 1.85 (0-7) mean subsequent treatments and surgery 1.87 (0-7), with inconclusive results regarding IRR when compared to ablation. Median TTR was 19.1 months (10.2-29.3) with ablation having the longest time with 22.2 months (13.2-31.1), followed by surgery with 20.3 months (13.3-29.3), Y90 with 19.1 months (6-NR) and TACE with 12.1 (6.1-21.2). Median OS was not reached, and only 5 patients started systemic therapy. Conclusions: This interim analysis shows that patients treated with TACE as the first locoregional therapy are likely to undergo a higher number of subsequent treatments when compared to ablation.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract

Track

Pancreatic Cancer,Hepatobiliary Cancer,Neuroendocrine/Carcinoid,Small Bowel Cancer

Sub Track

Therapeutics

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 3; abstr 526)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.3_suppl.526

Abstract #

526

Poster Bd #

E13

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