Long-term survival in a case of hepatocellular carcinoma.
A patient with an unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who survived without active treatment 3 years and 8 months after histological diagnosis is described. The size of the liver, which was already quite huge at the time of diagnosis, changed little during the entire clinical observation. However, 2 months before death, his condition deteriorated rapidly following gastrointestinal bleeding due to the direct invasion of the stomach by HCC. A critical reason for the unusually long-term survival of the patient may stem from the facts that a well-differentiated and bile-producing HCC was extent in most encapsulated-tumor tissues and that liver cirrhosis was not present.
D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000032:analysis
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