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Contemporary Oncology/Współczesna Onkologia
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Review paper

S-1 for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review of the literature

Wu-Kui Huang
,
Li-na You
,
Shu-Fa Yang
,
Deng-Yao Liu
,
Mo Liu
,
Xi-Wen Fan

Contemp Oncol (Pozn) 2017; 21 (1): 16-20
Online publish date: 2017/03/22
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver neoplasm worldwide. Based on its potent inhibition of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), S-1 is expected to be more active than other fluoropyrimidines against HCC with DPD activity. This systematic review was aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of S-1 for treatment of advanced HCC.

PubMed, the Cochrane Library, EMBA-

SE, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched using the terms “Hepatocellular Carcinoma” or “HCC” or “Hepatoma” or “Liver cancer” and ‘‘S-1’’. Outcomes of main interest included overall survival (OS) and toxicities.

We identified four studies of S-1 treatment alone from 1059 references, including a total of 272 patients. There were two original articles and two conference abstracts. The percentage of male patients ranged from 88 to 91.3% and median age ranged from 59 to 70 years. Median OS ranged from 8.6 to 16.5 months. The incidences of toxicity of more than 50% were thrombocytopaenia and fatigue. According to the original description, toxicities were acceptable.

The current evidence from the available clinical studies suggests that S-1 may be an effective and tolerable treatment for advanced HCC. Further clinical studies are warranted to further investigate this treatment option.
keywords:

hepatocellular carcinoma, S-1, systematic review

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