hepatocellular carcinoma liver cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Subjects with age above 18 years 2. Informed consent 3. Diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with CT or MRI-scan or 4. Running the surveillance program (patients with cirrhosis or those positive for HBV and older than 40 years) without hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with CT or MRI-scan or 5. Healthy persons (kidney donors)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients diagnosed with other malignant tumours 2. Patients who received prior chemotherapy (transarterial chemo-embolization)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To determine metabolites and natural occurring peptides in urine by mass spectrometry in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. This study is designed as a validation study; in a smaller study a spectrum of metabolites and natural occurring peptides have been identified in urine of patients with HCC and without HCC. However, with the data from the pilot study we cannot discriminate between biomarkers related to cirrhosis and to hepatocellular carcinoma. As identification of biomarkers predicting the early presence of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic livers would be of great clinical relevance additional urine analysis using mass spectrometry is indicated to determine a potential successful test of a new biomarker signature. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| nvt | — |
Countries
Netherlands