The trends in incidence of primary liver cancer caused by specific etiologies: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 and implications for liver cancer prevention

Liver cancer is a common lethal malignancy afflicting in excess of 1 million people and caused 800,000 deaths in 2016 worldwide.[1] It has been well documented that the incidence of liver cancer varies considerably across the world, with the highest incidence observed in East Asia. In contrast, the incidence in America is nearly five- to ten-folds lower than the incidence observed in East Asia.[2] Recent decreases in the incidence of liver cancer have been reported in China and Japan.[3 –5] However, newly diagnosed cases and the age standardized incidence rate of liver cancer have increased at global level during the last few decades, albeit significant public health efforts have been made to counter this problem.

Source: Journal of Hepatology - December 10, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Zhenqiu Liu, Yanfeng Jiang, Huangbo Yuan, Qiwen Fang, Ning Cai, Chen Suo, Li Jin, Tiejun Zhang, Xingdong Chen Source Type: research