• 1. Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, People’s Hospital of Leshan, Leshan, Sichuan 614000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Hepatobiliary Pancreas and Spleen System Diseases of Leshan, Leshan, Sichuan 614000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Radiology, People’s Hospital of Leshan, Leshan, Sichuan 614000, P. R. China;
  • 4. Department of Oncology, People’s Hospital of Leshan, Leshan, Sichuan 614000, P. R. China;
LEI Zehua, Email: leitsehua@126.com
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Objective  To investigate the value of multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis and treatment model in the conversion therapy of liver cancer. Method  The clinical data of a patient with high-risk giant liver cancer of the right liver who was admitted to People’s Hospital of Leshan in April 2019, and who was successfully conversion therapy and safely underwent hepatectomy after MDT discussion was retrospectively analyzed. Results  A 62 years old male patient was admitted to our hospital with “abdominal distension for more than 1 month, and liver mass was found for 10 days”. The relevant auxiliary examinations were perfected. The patient was diagnosed as huge primary hepatocellular carcinoma in the right liver. One-stage surgical resection cannot be performed safely due to the huge tumor. After MDT discussion, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with sorafenib targeted therapy was decided to reduce the lesions, and two-stage surgical resection was performed safely after conversion therapy. After two cycles of TACE combined with sorafenib targeted drug therapy, MDT discussed the feasibility of safe surgical resection, and underwent fluorescence-guided laparoscopic right posterior lobectomy. The postoperative pathological examination revealed moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient recovered and was discharged from the hospital one week later. Outpatient followed-up for 32 months showed no obvious abnormality. Conclusions  MDT discussion can formulate a more individualized treatment plan, improve the conversion rate and resectable rate of advanced liver cancer, and has important value in the diagnosis and treatment of advanced liver cancer.

Citation: ZHAO Xin, GAO Fengwei, LEI Zehua, XIE Qingyun, JIANG Kangyi, GAO Benjian, WANG Tao, FAN Hua. Conversion therapy of giant liver cancer: a case of MDT discussion. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2022, 29(8): 1024-1028. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202204010 Copy

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