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Serum Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Level Is an Independent Predictor of Recurrence and Survival in Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Prospective Cohort Study

2013; American Association for Cancer Research; Volume: 19; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-3443

1557-3265

Eun Ju Cho, Jeong‐Hoon Lee, Jeong‐Ju Yoo, Won‐Mook Choi, Min Jong Lee, Yuri Cho, Dong Hyeon Lee, Yun Bin Lee, Jung Hee Kwon, Su Jong Yu, Jeong Min Lee, Kyung‐Suk Suh, Kion Kim, Yoon Jun Kim, Jung‐Hwan Yoon, Chung Yong Kim, Hyo‐Suk Lee,

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract Purpose: Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) reflects hepatic synthetic function and plays an important role in the development and progression of various cancers. In this study, we investigated whether pretreatment serum IGF-I levels predict time-to-recurrence (TTR) and overall survival (OS) in patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma after curative treatment. Experimental Design: Consecutive patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who had undergone surgical resection, radiofrequency ablation, or percutaneous ethanol injection as curative treatments of early hepatocellular carcinoma were included from two prospective cohorts and the training set (n = 101) and the validation set (n = 91) were established. Serum samples were collected before treatment and the levels of IGF-I and IGF-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) were analyzed with regard to their associations with recurrence and survival. Results: In the training set, patients with low IGF-I levels showed significantly shorter TTR [median, 14.6 months; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.8–27.5] than patients with high IGF-I levels (median, 50.8 months; 95% CI, 36.9–64.7; P < 0.001) during a median follow-up period of 52.4 months. In the multivariate analysis, low levels of IGF-I were an independent predictor of recurrence (HR, 2.49; 95% CI, 1.52–4.08; P < 0.001). Furthermore, together with high-serum α-fetoprotein and multiple tumors, low levels of IGF-I remained an independent predictor of poorer survival (HR, 8.00; 95% CI, 1.94–33.01; P = 0.004). Applied to the independent validation set, low-serum IGF-I levels maintained their prognostic value for shorter TTR and OS. Conclusions: Low-baseline IGF-I levels independently correlated with shorter TTR and poorer survival in patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma after curative treatment. Clin Cancer Res; 19(15); 4218–27. ©2013 AACR.