An observational study in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), BCLC Stage B Hepatocellular Carcinoma and BCLC Stage C Hepatocellular Carcinoma, sponsored by First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University. Completed at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-26.
Sponsored by First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University · Observational
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the efficacy of Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) versus Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (HAIC) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The main questions it aims to answer are:
Can distinct imaging phenotype subtypes be identified in unresectable HCC patients using radiomics and unsupervised clustering?
Do these different imaging subtypes show significant differences in treatment efficacy (such as objective response rate, progression-free survival, and overall survival) after receiving TACE or HAIC?
Can this method objectively identify which imaging subtype of patients is more suitable for TACE and which may benefit more from HAIC?
Participants in this study are adult patients diagnosed with unresectable HCC (BCLC stage B or C) who have already undergone complete TACE or HAIC treatment as part of their regular medical care between January 2015 and December 2024. Researchers will retrospectively analyze their existing clinical data and pre-treatment medical images to compare outcomes.
3,182 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; 954 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 3,000 is above the median of 200 across 754 observational studies indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular.
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Patients with unresectable HCC who TACE or HAIC
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with unresectable HCC treated with transarterial chemoembolization
Procedure: Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
Patients with unresectable HCC treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy
Procedure: hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC)
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Overall survival
Time interval from date of initial treatment until the date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months
Time frame: From date of initial treatment until the date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months
Progression free survival
Time interval from date of initial treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months
Time frame: From date of initial treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months
Tumor response
Defined as the proportion of patients achieving complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD) or progressive disease (PD) according to mRECIST criteria.
Time frame: From date of initial treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 24 months
Plan to share: No — This study utilizes existing clinical and imaging data collected as part of routine medical care. The dataset contains detailed and potentially re-identifiable patient information, including medical images, clinical records, and treatment outcomes. Due to institutional data privacy policies, ethical restrictions related to patient confidentiality, and the lack of broad consent from participants for data sharing beyond the scope of this specific research, we are unable to publicly share individual participant data. All data will be stored securely within the hospital's internal research database, and access will be restricted to the study investigators for analysis purposes only. Requests for aggregated or de-identified results may be considered upon reasonable inquiry to the corresponding author, subject to institutional review and compliance with applicable regulations.
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