Chinese clinical practice guidelines for transarterial chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma (2023 edition)

Abstract

Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the most commonly used method in the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is a malignancy of hypervascularity originating from hepatocytes. The experts from Chinese College of Interventionalists (CCI) published Chinese Clinical Practice Guidelines for TACE of HCC in 2018 and updated it in 2021. These guidelines have played an important role in standardizing the clinical practice of TACE treatment for HCC in China. With the updated concept, technological progress, and emergence of high-level evidence in accordance with the principles of evidence-based medicine of TACE for HCC, the guidelines were revised and updated again by the experts from CCI. The 2023 edition guidelines not only adopts a more suitable evidence evaluation and recommendation system, but also adds the following contents: TACE in special circumstances, TACE in multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of HCC and the whole process management, TACE quality control, hot spots and development direction of TACE, etc. This guideline is based on the latest evidence-based medical evidence and combined with clinical practice, and aims to standardize TACE treatment of HCC in China.