Development and validation of the NTAA prognostic model for BCLC stage B hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing transarterial chemoembolization: a retrospective multicenter cohort study

作者：Shuanggang Chen, Lujun Shen, Letao Lin, Han Qi, Boyang Chang, Qi Zeng, Linbin Lu, Jingjun Huang, Hongtong Tan, Fei Cao, Lin Xie, Tao Huang, Ying Wu, Chunyong Wen, Yujia Wang, Ruizhi Tang, Chen Li, Guanglei Zheng, Gulijiayina Nuerhashi, Weijun Fan · 发表于：International Journal of Surgery · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1097/js9.0000000000003138 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis、Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes、Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to establish a valid new prognostic predictive tool for assessing the outcomes after TACE treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with Child-Pugh A at Barcelona clinical liver cancer stage B (BCLC B) undergoing transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). METHODS AND MATERIALS: We retrospectively analyzed 2529 HBV-related BCLC B HCC patients with Child-Pugh grade A who received initial TACE treatment, with 1075 in the primary cohort, 1076 in the internal validation cohort, and the remaining 378 in the multicenter external validation cohort. The NTAA prognostic model was constructed by Cox proportional hazards regression. The prognostic prediction performance of the NTAA prognostic model with AJCC staging and other criterion were compared by the time-dependent ROC and C-index. In addition, we included 305 patients of non-HBV-related BCLC stage B HCC who received TACE treatment in our center to further validate the predictive performance of the NTAA model. RESULTS: Tumor size, tumor number, alpha-fetoprotein level, and albumin-bilirubin grade were found to be independent factors affecting overall survival (OS) after TACE in these patients. The NTAA prognostic model established accordingly divided patients into low-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk groups, with a median survival of 68.1, 35.7, and 15.4 months, respectively. The time-dependent ROC and C-index showed that the NTAA prognostic model was better than other existing criterion and AJC...