Indicators of sorafenib efficacy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

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World J Gastroenterol. Sep 21, 2014; 20(35): 12581-12587
Published online Sep 21, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i35.12581

Table 1 Incidence of adverse events

	NTC-CTCAE grade¹ (1/2/3/4/5)
Hand-foot syndrome	12/7/3/0/0
Hypertension	12/7/0/0/0
Diarrhea	10/5/0/0/0
Alopecia	7/0/-/-/-

¹The highest grade of adverse events was described. NTC-CTCAE: National Cancer Institute’s Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.

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Table 2 Cox proportional hazards model analysis of overall survival

Variable	Univariate		Multivariate
Variable	HR (95%CI)	P	HR (95%CI)	P
Child-Pugh grade
A	0.26 (0.13-0.70)	0.0062^a	0.42 (0.17-1.04)	0.0594
B	1.00		1.00
Major HCC
Intrahepatic	1.00		1.00
Extrahepatic	0.39 (0.13-0.97)	0.0430^a	0.57 (0.18-1.52)	0.2757
Largest tumor
< 5 cm	0.19 (0.07-0.48)	0.0007^a	0.22 (0.08-0.59)	0.0030^a
> 5 cm	1.00		1.00
Hand-foot syndrome
-	1.00		1.00
+	0.36 (0.15–0.80)	0.0119^a	0.63 (0.24-1.62)	0.3481
Hypertension
-	1.00		1.00
+	0.40 (0.16-0.93)	0.0321^a	0.69 (0.24-1.76)	0.4441
Diarrhea
-	1.00
+	0.61 (0.41-1.36)	0.4644
Alopecia
-	1.00
+	0.49 (0.13-1.36)	0.1794

CI: Confidence interval; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; HR: Hazard ratio.

^aP < 0.05 vs control.

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Table 3 Cox proportional hazards model analysis of time to progression

Variable	Univariate		Multivariate
Variable	HR (95%CI)	P	HR (95%CI)	P
Child-Pugh grade
A	0.60 (0.31-1.22)	0.1550
B	1.00
Major HCC
Intrahepatic	1.00		1.00
Extrahepatic	0.32 (0.14-0.67)	0.0020^a	0.36 (0.16-0.77)	0.0070^a
Largest tumor
< 5 cm	0.71 (0.36-1.52)	0.3653
> 5 cm	1.00
Hand-foot syndrome
-	1.00		1.00
+	0.41 (0.20-0.82)	0.0111^a	0.44 (0.21-0.91)	0.0274^a
Hypertension
-	1.00		1.00
+	0.43 (0.21-0.84)	0.0128^a	0.55 (0.26-1.09)	0.0852
Diarrhea
-	1.00
+	0.90 (0.54-1.40)	0.6574
Alopecia
-	1.00
+	0.84 (0.31-1.92)	0.6936

CI: Confidence interval; HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; HR: Hazard ratio.

^aP < 0.05 vs control.

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Table 4 Comparison of clinical factors by location of major hepatocellular carcinoma

	Intrahepatic(n = 28)	Extrahepatic(n = 18)	P
Age (yr) (mean ± SD)	68.7 ± 8.5	73.6 ± 10.7	0.0500
Largest tumor (cm) [median (range)]	4.0 (1.5-15)	1.0 (0.0-5.0)	< 0.0001^a
Portal invasion (%)	64.2 (18/28)	5.7 (1/18)	< 0.0001^a
Sorafenib
800 mg	7	4	0.9769
400 mg	15	10
200 mg	6	4

SD: Standard deviation.

^aP < 0.05 vs control.

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Citation: Yada M, Masumoto A, Motomura K, Tajiri H, Morita Y, Suzuki H, Senju T, Koyanagi T. Indicators of sorafenib efficacy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(35): 12581-12587
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v20.i35.12581