Status:

UNKNOWN

Prompt Or Watchful Monitoring for Hepatitis B Virus Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma Without Elevated viRal Load

Lead Sponsor:

Samsung Medical Center

Conditions:

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

Antiviral therapy for HBV may play an important role here, as a large observation study from Taiwan reported that the use of nucleos(t)ide analogues (NUC) was associated with 33% reduction in HCC recu...

Detailed Description

HCC is a major global health problem, which is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, and accounts for 7% of all cancers worldwide. Curative treatment, such as SR, RFA has improved patients...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma (clinically or histologically)
  • chronic hepatitis B
  • serum HBV DNA \< 2000 IU/mL
  • HCC stage BCLC 0 or A
  • treated or will be treated with RFA or surgical resection

Exclusion

  • co-infected with HCV, HIV
  • currently using antiviral drug (lamivudine, adefovir, clevudine, tenofovir, entecavir, telbivudine) or interferon
  • other malignancy
  • dialysis
  • pregnancy

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

June 1 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

124 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02308319

Start Date

January 1 2015

End Date

June 1 2019

Last Update

December 4 2014

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