Detect or not to detect very early stage hepatocellular carcinoma? The western perspective.

In conclusion, attempting to detect very early stage HCC is difficult to achieve and controversial. Clinicians should take into account of the risk and the benefit of diagnostic tests, LT candidacy of patients and the local organ allocation system. PMID: 30924328 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30924328?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical and molecular hepatology - March 31, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Clin Mol Hepatol Source Type: research