An increased iron status is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with hepatocellular cancer
G Treiber · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2008 · Heft 09
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Zusammenfassung
Introduction: Prognosis of Hepatocellular Cancer (HCC) depends on many factors, most of them incorporated in current staging systems such as BCLC; there are scarce data about an influence of iron status upon prognosis in patients with NAFLD, chronic viral hepatitis, and liver cirrhosis. Methods: To determine the impact of iron status on the prognosis of patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer, treated with octreotide (alone or in combination with other drugs), we analysed HCC outcome from 2 previous prospective trials (one published fully in ZGastro2007, the second as an abstract in ASCO GI Cancer 2007) wit…