Utility of Tumor Burden Score to Stratify Prognosis of Patients with Hepatocellular Cancer: Results of 4759 Cases from ITA.LI.CA Study Group.
Alessandro VitaleQuirino LaiFabio FarinatiLaura BucciEdoardo G GianniniLucia NapoliFrancesca CiccareseGian Lodovico RapacciniMaria Di MarcoEugenio CaturelliMarco ZoliFranco BorzioRodolfo SaccoGiuseppe CabibboRoberto VirdoneFabio MarraMartina FelderFilomena MoriscoLuisa BenvegnùAntonio GasbarriniGianluca Svegliati-BaroniFrancesco Giuseppe FoschiGabriele MissaleAlberto MasottoGerardo NardoneAntonio ColecchiaMauro BernardiFranco TrevisaniTimothy M Pawliknull nullPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)
Survival prediction of HCC patients was very well done using TBS model, even stratifying the population in relation to the presence of metastases and/or vascular invasion. TBS model was the best in terms of discriminatory ability and goodness of fit when compared with other continuous or binary variables. Its incorporation in a model composed by tumor- and liver function-related variables further increases its survival prediction.