Developing a new model for predicting the result of arterial chemical injection treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma in a PhD thesis at the National Liver Institute at Menoufia University.
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07/06/2020
The doctoral thesis prepared by Doctor Omar Ahmed Al-Shaarawy at the National Liver Institute at Menoufia University discussed the development of a new model for predicting the outcome of arterial chemical injection treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma, which is the first doctoral thesis at the National Liver Institute with the new regulation system in the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology
The research indicated that there are many systems used in the evaluation of liver cancer patients and the evaluation of the condition and efficiency of the liver. These systems are used to determine the nature of the treatment that the patient will receive and his ability to bear the benefit from this treatment. There are some cases that can’t be completed for the process of tumor removal as a result of the incompetence of the liver and then it is necessary to evaluate this ability. And he is now using the proposed system from the BCLC doctors in Barcelona, which basically depends on another system, the Child-Pugh score, which assesses the level of bile, albumin and liquidity, as well as dropsy and the occurrence of hepatic coma or not. It also uses pre-determined degrees for each level of bile and albumin, which may darken the patient as the patient with simple yellow at the level of 3 mg takes the same degree as the patient who suffers from severe plexus at the level of 25 mg, which darkens many patients, where the ability of that first patient is much better than The second
Therefore, the need to develop and build new models has become appropriate for patients and be objective and does not depend on a personal evaluation that leads harm patients and an inaccuracy in the classification of cases and evaluation of their progress, especially in patients with intermediate stage of hepatocellular carcinoma which is one of the interlocking stages as a result of the presence of many Depending on the patient's condition, liver efficacy, and tumor spread, stages emerge. It is worth noting that this stage is most often treated with arterial chemical injection, and it is the most widespread treatment for patients of this stage.