Serum cytokine and chemokine analysis of patients with treatment-naïve unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma and cancer-free chronic liver disease.

A total of 116 patients, 96 with treatment-naïve unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC) and 20 chronic liver disease without any cancer, were analysed for 17 cytokines and chemokines from serum and analysed for oncological features. In the study presented here, a total of 17 chemokines and cytokines were obtained using a well-defined cohort of 96 uHCC cases and 20 chronic liver disease patients without any cancer as comparison cases , in an attempt to identify prognostic factors.