Research Article

Treatment Patterns and Survival in Patients with Intermediate, Advanced, or Terminal Stage of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in France over the Period 2015-2017: A Real-Life Study

Table 2

Treatment pathway of patients with newly identified IAT stage HCC over the period 2015-2017.

Newly identified IAT stage HCC populationTotal 19,649 (100%)

Treatment pathway since the IAT stage diagnosis
 Best supportive care only10,584 (53.9%)
 Systemic treatment only3,951 (20.1%)
 TACE only3,382 (17.2%)
 TACE and systemic treatment1,241 (6.3%)
 TARE only176 (0.9%)
 TARE and systemic treatment130 (0.7%)
 TACE and TARE97 (0.5%)
 TACE and TARE and systemic treatment88 (0.4%)
Systemic treatment received
 Targeted systemic treatment4,681
  Sorafenib4,658
  Lenvatinib5
  Regorafenib334
  Cabozantinib4
 Other chemotherapies1,267
  Other chemotherapies without targeted systemic treatment729

IAT stage: intermediate, advanced, or terminal stage. TACE: transarterial chemoembolization; TARE: transarterial radioembolization.