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BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with fever as the initial presentation are extremely rare. Our aim was to investigate the clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with this disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical features were analyzed in a retrospective study of 63 HCC patients with fever as the first manifestation and 300 HCC patients without fever as the control group. RESULTS:HCC patients with fever had a higher neutrophil percentage, larger tumor size, worse tumor differentiation, advanced Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage, and more hilar lymph node metastasis than HCC patients without fever (all P<0.05). Compared with HCC patients without fever, patients presenting with fever had shorter overall survival (OS, median: 13 months, P<0.001) and time to recurrence (TTR, median: 7.5 months, P<0.001). In addition, HCC patients with fever also had shorter OS and TTR than those without fever in all clinical subgroups with aggressive features (all P<0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that neutrophil percentage >70%, fever grade ≥38.5°C, tumor size >5 cm, and hilar lymph node metastasis were independent factors for OS and TTR. A positive correlation was observed between body temperature and serum neutrophil percentage (r=0.527, P<0.001). Patients with a fever grade ≥38.5°C had more incomplete encapsulation and larger tumor size, while those with a neutrophil percentage >70% presented with more incomplete encapsulation, vascular invasion, and worse tumor differentiation. Patients with a fever grade ≥38.5°C combined with a neutrophil percentage >70% had worse OS and TTR than other groups. CONCLUSION:HCC patients presenting with fever have poorer prognosis than those without fever; however, their prognosis could be improved by timely surgical intervention. Patients with a neutrophil percentage >70% and a fever grade ≥38.5°C represent a rare HCC subgroup with an extremely dismal outcome and more aggressive clinical course.
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Onco Targets Therjournal_title
OncoTargets and therapyauthors
Gong ZJ,Guo W,Sun YF,Zhang X,Qiu SJ,Zhou J,Fan J,Yang XRdoi
10.2147/OTT.S109023subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-10-13 00:00:00pages
6281-6290issn
1178-6930pii
ott-9-6281journal_volume
9pub_type
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2013-04-18 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-02-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2147/OTT.S136840
更新日期:2017-09-25 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2147/OTT.S227156
更新日期:2019-12-27 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2015-09-22 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2147/OTT.S69618
更新日期:2014-09-26 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2147/OTT.S205017
更新日期:2019-11-07 00:00:00
abstract::Purpose: NSD3 (WHSC1L1) is a protein lysine methyltransferase that is recurrently amplified (8p11.23) in several cancer types, and its upregulation is involved in tumor cell proliferation, metastasis, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We aimed to evaluate its potential function as an oncogenic force in colo...
journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2147/OTT.S191732
更新日期:2019-05-21 00:00:00
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更新日期:2015-11-24 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2017-06-07 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2147/OTT.S174846
更新日期:2018-10-05 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2020-08-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2018-03-23 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2018-12-18 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-06-12 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2019-08-21 00:00:00
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journal_title:OncoTargets and therapy
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更新日期:2016-05-05 00:00:00
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更新日期:2010-09-07 00:00:00