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Yamasaki, T.; Saeki, I.; Kotoh-Yamauchi, Y.; Sasaki, R.; Tanabe, N.; Oono, T.; Matsuda, T.; Hisanaga, T.; Matsumoto, T.; Hidaka, I.; et al. Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/45097 (accessed on 27 July 2024).
Yamasaki T, Saeki I, Kotoh-Yamauchi Y, Sasaki R, Tanabe N, Oono T, et al. Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/45097. Accessed July 27, 2024.
Yamasaki, Takahiro, Issei Saeki, Yurika Kotoh-Yamauchi, Ryo Sasaki, Norikazu Tanabe, Takashi Oono, Takashi Matsuda, Takuro Hisanaga, Toshihiko Matsumoto, Isao Hidaka, et al. "Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/45097 (accessed July 27, 2024).
Yamasaki, T., Saeki, I., Kotoh-Yamauchi, Y., Sasaki, R., Tanabe, N., Oono, T., Matsuda, T., Hisanaga, T., Matsumoto, T., Hidaka, I., Ishikawa, T., Takami, T., Suehiro, Y., & Sakaida, I. (2023, June 01). Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/45097
Yamasaki, Takahiro, et al. "Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma." Encyclopedia. Web. 01 June, 2023.
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Systemic therapeutic agents, including combination immunotherapy, could promote a change in the treatment strategy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) is highly effective in patients with vascular invasion compared with sorafenib.

advanced hepatocellular carcinoma hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy sorafenib vascular invasion

1. Overview of HAIC

1.1. Concept

Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) involves two procedures as follows: as scheduled, chemotherapeutic regimens are administered through a reservoir port connected to a catheter, which is implanted under the skin, and a catheter is inserted each time without implantation of the reservoir port. As HAIC is expected to accumulate drug concentrations in the local liver and reduce systemic toxicity of anti-cancer drugs, it is considered to have a more favorable antitumor effect and less influence on other organs than systemic chemotherapy. However, currently, no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have compared HAIC with systemic chemotherapy in a large number of HCC patients.

1.2. Regimens

As the anti-cancer drugs that can be used in HAIC differ across countries, it may be difficult to adopt these HAIC regimens. In Japan, three regimens have been used for HAIC treatment: 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) combined with low-dose cisplatin (CDDP) (low-dose FP) [1][2][3], 5-FU combined with interferon (FAIT) [4][5][6][7], and CDDP alone [8][9][10] (Table 1). The response rates (complete response [CR] + partial response [PR]/all patients) of the regimens comprising low-dose FP or FAIT and the CDDP regimen were approximately 30–40% and 20–30%, respectively. Recently, HAIC regimens comprising low-dose FP or CDDP alone have been generally used in Japan [11].
Table 1. Regimens of hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy.
Authors [Reference] Publishing Year Regimens Case Number Vascular Invasion (%) Response Rate (%) Median Survival Time (Months)
Low-dose FP
Saeki, et al. [1] 2015 Low-dose FP
including the combination of LV/IV or IV plus IFN		 90 ND 34.4 10.6
Nouso, et al. [2] 2013 CDDP+5FU 476 44.1 40.5 14.0
(341 patients)
Ueshima, et al. [3] 2010 Low-dose FP 52 80.8 38.5 15.9
FAIT
Monden, et al. [4] 2012 IFNα, 5-FU 34 90.0 26.7 8.4
Low-dose FP/CDDP 35 90.3 25.8 11.8
Yamashita, et al. [5] 2011 IFNα, CDDP, 5-FU 57 26.7 45.6 17.6
IFNα, 5-FU 57 50.0 24.6 10.5
Nagano, et al. [6] 2011 IFNα, 5-FU 102 100.0 39.2 9.0
Obi, et al. [7] 2006 IFNα, 5-FU 116 100.0 52.0 6.9
CDDP
Ikeda, et al. [8] 2013 CDDP powder (IA call) 25 100.0 28.0 7.6
Kim, et al. [9] 2011 CDDP 41 83.3 12.2 7.5
CDDP, 5-FU 97 27.8 12.0
Yoshikawa, et al. [10] 2008 CDDP powder (IA call) 80 27.5 33.8 ND
ND, not described; Low-dose FP, low-dose 5-fluorouracil plus cisplatin; LV, leucovorin; IV, isovorin; IFN, interferon; CDDP, cisplatin; 5-FU, 5-fluorouracil.

1.3. Indications

HAIC is commonly used to treat advanced HCC, whether naive or recurrent tumors. According to the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2017 version) established by the Japan Society of Hepatology (JSH) [12], HAIC or MTA is recommended as a second-line treatment in HCC patients with ≥4 nodules, without vascular invasion and extrahepatic metastasis (EHM); whereas transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE), hepatectomy, HAIC, and MTA are recommended as first-line treatments in HCC patients with vascular invasion, without EHM. Furthermore, patients with Child–Pugh A or B HCC are candidates for HAIC [12]. In this regard, the guidelines from Korea and Taiwan demonstrated that HAIC may be considered an optional treatment in a subpopulation of patients [13][14].

1.4. Clinical Outcomes

As shown in Table 1, the median survival time (MST) was different based on the degree of vascular invasion. Radiological responders (CR or PR) show significantly longer survival than radiological non-responders (stable or progressive disease). A Japanese nationwide survey reported that the MST was significantly longer in patients who received HAIC (n = 341, 14 months) than in those who did not receive active treatment (n = 341, 5.2 months) in a propensity score-matched analysis [2]. In Child–Pugh A or B HCC patients with portal vein tumor thrombus, the MST was similarly significantly longer in patients receiving HAIC (7.9 months) than in those without therapy (3.1 months) [2]. A recent report demonstrated that none of the HAIC regimens (low-dose FP, FAIT, and CDDP alone) had no effect on survival in patients with advanced HCC [15].

2. Clinical Benefits and Disadvantages of HAIC

The clinical benefits of HAIC for advanced HCC are as follows: (1) even a patient with Child–Pugh B HCC (7 or 8 points) is a candidate for HAIC [16], (2) Child–Pugh scores barely decline after HAIC [17][18], (3) HAIC is highly effective in patients with vascular invasion compared with sorafenib [15][19], and 4) survival in patients receiving HAIC may not be associated with skeletal muscle volume [20]. In contrast, the disadvantages of HAIC for advanced HCC are as follows: (1) a highly technical procedure is needed to implant a catheter with a reservoir port; (2) hospitalization is needed to continue HAIC treatments; (3) patients have to return for follow-up visits every 2 weeks to maintain the reservoir system; and (4) adverse events related to the reservoir system, such as port migration, catheter dislocation, arterial occlusion, reservoir system occlusion, subcutaneous hematomas, or infection [21].
Atezolizumab combined with bevacizumab was recently approved, and this combination will be recommended as the first-line therapy for advanced HCC. However, a comparison between atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and HAIC has not been performed. Patients with macrovascular invasion, including an invasion of the main portal trunk, accounted for 38% of those in the atezolizumab plus bevacizumab group; however, the details were not shown [22]. Therefore, as there has been no information regarding this combination therapy in real-world practice, further studies are required.
The treatment proposal for HAIC for advanced HCC was drafted in Figure 1. The combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab will be shifted to the first-line therapy in patients with Child–Pugh A HCC, regardless of EHM, and currently used MTAs will be shifted to later lines of therapy [23]. HAIC may be an optional treatment in patients with Child–Pugh A HCC and vascular invasion, especially Vp3 or Vp4, without EHM [15][19]. MTAs are generally used in patients with Child–Pugh A HCC, whereas the use of MTAs in patients with Child–Pugh B HCC remains controversial. Some Asian guidelines recommended that sorafenib is considered in selected patients with Child–Pugh B (e.g., score, 7 points) [13][14][24][25][26], although sorafenib treatment significantly worsened survival in patients with Child–Pugh B HCC compared to those with Child–Pugh A HCC [27]. In contrast, patients with Child–Pugh B HCC (score 7 or 8 points) are candidates for HAIC [16]. The medical needs of patients receiving second-line therapy for Child–Pugh B HCC without EHM and those who have EHM with Child–Pugh B HCC, are yet to be met. However, HAIC may be considered in a subpopulation of both Child–Pugh B HCC and EHM patients if the intrahepatic tumor is directly linked to prognosis. Therefore, patients in clinical trials who can tolerate deteriorated liver function would be candidates for the novel therapy [28][29]. However, deferasirox, an oral iron chelator, has limited efficacy due to associated adverse effects, especially renal dysfunction [29]. In the future, systemic therapeutic agents would be expected to be developed for the unmet medical needs of patients undergoing advanced HCC treatment.
Figure 1. A draft of the treatment proposal for advanced HCC. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HAIC, hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy; Vp3, primary branch portal vein invasion; Vp4, main portal vein invasion.

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Yurika Kotoh-Yamauchi
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Ryo Sasaki
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Norikazu Tanabe
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Takashi Oono
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Takashi Matsuda
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Takuro Hisanaga
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Toshihiko Matsumoto
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Isao Hidaka
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Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
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Taro Takami
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Yutaka Suehiro
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