CONCLUSIONS

In conclusion, we constructed and validated a novel PECAR score predicting the recurrence of HBV-related CHC patients in stage I/II. The PECAR score may help predict the per-patient recurrence risk and facilitate clinicians manage patients with stage I/II CHC patients, and further studies are also needed to improve clinical strategy.

Abbreviations list

CHC, combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; ICC, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; OS, overall survival; DFS, disease-free survival; BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; HKLC, Hong Kong Liver Cancer; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; LCSGJ, Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan; HBV, hepatitis B virus; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; CT, computed tomography; AFP, alpha-fetoprotein; CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen; CA19-9, carbohydrate antigen 19-9; PEI, percutaneous ethanol injection; C-index, concordance index; VI, vascular invasion.

Acknowledgments

We all express our sincere thanks to Zun-Song Hu for statistical analysis. We would like to thank the participants and staff of the Zhongshan Hospital for their valuable contributions; the staff included Zhen-Bin Ding, Yuan-Fei Peng, Zhi Dai, and Pei-Yun Zhou. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81472674, 81773067, 81800790 and 81502486), the National Key Sci-Tech Project (2012ZX10002011-002), the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology, China (No. 16JC1404000), the Shu Guang Project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (13SG04), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (2018M640343).

Disclosure

The authors declared no conflicts of interest in this work.

Meng-Xin Tian,^1,2,* Liu-Ping Luo,^3,4,* Wei-Ren Liu,^1,2,* Wei Deng,⁵ Jia-Cheng Yin,^1,2 Lei Jin,^1,2 Xi-Fei Jiang,^1,2 Yu-Fu Zhou,^1,2 Wei-Feng Qu,^1,2 Zheng Tang,^1,2 Han Wang,^1,2 Chen-Yang Tao,^1,2 Yuan Fang,^1,2Shuang-Jian Qiu,^1,2 Jian Zhou,^1–2,6 Jing-Feng Liu,^3,4 Jia Fan,^1–2,6 Ying-Hong Shi^1,2

¹Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; ²Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; ³Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; ⁴The United Innovation of Mengchao Hepatobiliary Technology Key Laboratory of Fujian Province, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; ⁵Department of Health Statistics and Social Medicine, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, People‘s Republic of China; ⁶Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People‘s Republic of China

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Originally published June 5, 2019.

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