Statin Combination Therapy in Patients Receiving Sorafenib for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Summary

Target therapy with sorafenib is the standard of treatment for advanced Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the patient survival time is still unsatisfactory. The aims of this study are to prove statins improve the tumor responses and overall survival for patients who receive sorafenib therapy for advanced HCC by a prospective randomized controlled study.

Timeline

Start

2017-12-21

Primary completion

2020-12-21

Completion

2021-03-13

Publications

• Background 1. Llovet JM, Ricci S, Mazzaferro V, et al. Sorafenib in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. N Engl J Med 2008;359:378-390. 2. Cheng AL, Kang YK, Chen Z, et al. Efficacy and safety of sorafenib in patients in the Asia-Pacific region with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Oncol 2009;10:25-34. 3. Cainap C, Qin S, Huang WT, et al. Linifanib versus Sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: results of a randomized phase III trial. J Clin Oncol 2015;33:172-179. 4. Llovet JM, Decaens T, Raoul JL, et al. Brivanib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who were intolerant to sorafenib or for whom sorafenib failed: results from the randomized phase III BRISK-PS study. J Clin Oncol 2013;31:3509-3516. 5. Singh S, Singh PP, Roberts LR, et al. Chemopreventive strategies in hepatocellular carcinoma. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2014;11:45-54. 6. Demierre MF, Higgins PD, Gruber SB, et al. Statins and cancer prevention. Nat Rev Cancer 2005;5:930-942. 7. Wu J, Wong WW, Khosravi F, et al. Blocking the Raf/MEK/ERK pathway sensitizes acute myelogenous leukemia cells to lovastatin-induced apoptosis. Cancer Res 2004;64:6461-6468. 8. Rao S, Porter DC, Chen X, et al. Lovastatin-mediated G1 arrest is through inhibition of the proteasome, independent of hydroxymethyl glutaryl-CoA reductase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999;96:7797-7802. 9. El-Serag HB, Johnson ML, Hachem C, et al. Statins are associated with a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a large cohort of patients with diabetes. Gastroenterology 2009;136:1601-1608. 10. Tsan YT, Lee CH, Wang JD, et al. Statins and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis B virus infection. J Clin Oncol 2012;30:623-630. 11. Chiu HF, Ho SC, Chen CC, et al. Statin use and the risk of liver cancer: a population-based case-control study. Am J Gastroenterol 2011;106:894-898.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.