Spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma in a pure palliative care setting

We report a case of spontaneous remission of hepatocellular carcinoma in an 84‐year‐old woman who was managed in our best supportive care clinic. The tumor, once relapsed regardless of the application of conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation, regressed spo...

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Autores principales: Yamamoto, Naoki, Yamamoto, Chikara, Tajitsu, Takeya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10000271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36909793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.588
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description We report a case of spontaneous remission of hepatocellular carcinoma in an 84‐year‐old woman who was managed in our best supportive care clinic. The tumor, once relapsed regardless of the application of conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation, regressed spontaneously within 4 months. The presence of an occlusive thrombus in the portal vein feeding to the site of the tumor suggests that the reduced blood supply might have caused tumor necrosis. Furthermore, the successful eradication of hepatitis C virus maintained performance status, and good nutrition might play other roles on it.
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spelling pubmed-100002712023-03-11 Spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma in a pure palliative care setting Yamamoto, Naoki Yamamoto, Chikara Tajitsu, Takeya J Gen Fam Med Case Report We report a case of spontaneous remission of hepatocellular carcinoma in an 84‐year‐old woman who was managed in our best supportive care clinic. The tumor, once relapsed regardless of the application of conventional transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation, regressed spontaneously within 4 months. The presence of an occlusive thrombus in the portal vein feeding to the site of the tumor suggests that the reduced blood supply might have caused tumor necrosis. Furthermore, the successful eradication of hepatitis C virus maintained performance status, and good nutrition might play other roles on it. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10000271/ /pubmed/36909793 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.588 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10000271/
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