Reply to: “Liver resection for BCLC 0-A stage hepatocellular carcinoma: Does the time to surgery not impact the prognosis”

We thank Pei et al. for the opportunity to discuss our article recently published in the Journal of Hepatology.1 Pei et al. raised the concern that the study population of our work could not represent the whole cohort of Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) A stage patients because the enrolled patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in this study had limited tumor burden. They speculate that large tumors represented only a very small proportion, which makes the representativeness and credibility of our conclusion questionable.
Source: Journal of Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research