Clinical trial NCT05221398: Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Postoperative Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Official title: Adjuvant Immune CheckPoint InhibitoRs Based ThErapy in PostoperatiVe HEpatocellular CarciNoma: a ProspecTive Real-world Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Keywords: immune checkpoint inhibitor
Lead sponsor: Guangxi Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-03
Enrollment: 517
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent curative hepatectomy. And then, these patients receive adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy.

Brief summary: Though hepatectomy is the best treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the 5-years recurrence-free survival is lower than 30%. In recent years, several immune checkpoint inhibitors have been approved in advanced HCC. No study about the safety and efficacy of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with HCC after hepatectomy was reported.

Detailed description: Hepatic resection is the best treatment for patients with early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or selected intermediate or advanced disease. However, the postoperative 5-years recurrent rate is up to 70%, for whom recurrence is a major cause of death. In recent years, several immune checkpoint inhibitors have been approved in advanced HCC by official guidelines. At the same time, four randomizead controlled trials about adjvuant immune checkpoint inhibitors for postoperative HCC are ongoing. However, no study about the safety and efficacy of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors for such patients in clinical practice was reported. Therefore, the investigators plan to investigate the safety and efficacy of adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with high-risk factor of HCC recurrence after curative hepatectomy in a prospective cohort study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Underwent curative hepatectomy;
* Diagnosis of HCC was confirmed by postoperative histopathology;
* Liver function Child-Pugh A or B;
* Performance status score 0 or 1
* With high risk factor of HCC recurrence, such as tumor size ≥ 5 cm, multinodular, macrovascular invasion or microvascular invasion; Receive immune checkpoint inhibitors based adjuvant therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Receive neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Recurrence-free survivial
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Overall survival
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nanning
country: China
facility: Jian-Hong Zhong
state: Guangxi
Study officials:
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