Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma with major portal vein invasion: A phase II study
- Conditions
- Neoplasms
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 28
1. Male or female patients =18 years of age
2. Eastern Cooerative Oncology Group performance status 0 or 1
3. HCC with major portal vein tumor thrombosis (tumor thrombosis in the main portal vein or 1st branch of portal vein)
4. Cirrhotic status of Child Pugh class A or B7
5. Patients can have extra-hepatic disease; provided the hepatic disease is the highest burden, the extra-hepatic disease is low burden and potentially treatable with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and target agent etc; patient survival is expected to be at least 6 months.
6. Patient or gaurdian must be able to provide verbal and written informed consent
1. Prior trans-arterial chemo-embolization =4 after diagnosis of major portal vein tumor thrombosis
2. Severe complication caused by liver cirrhosis eg. variceal bleeding, poorly controlled ascites, hepatic encephalopathy)
3. Uncontrolled inter-current illness except liver cirrhosis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Tumor stabilization rate
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Overall survival;Tumor progression free survival;Treatment related toxicity