The chances of hepatic resection curing hepatocellular carcinoma

The popular sense of the word “cure” translates into the analytic concept of statistical cure which occurs when a group of patients returns to having similar mortality to a reference population. Data from 2523 resected patients for hepatocellular carcinoma were used to estimate the probability that resection would offer the same life expectancy as patients with chronic hepatitis – cirrhosis, and general population. The cure model suggests that resection can provide the same life-expectancy of patients with chronic hepatitis – cirrhosis in 26.3% of cases, and the same life-expectancy of general population in 17.1%. Patients resected in the most recent years had higher cure probabilities, probably due to modern effective antiviral therapies.

Source: Journal of Hepatology - November 28, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Alessandro Cucchetti, Jianhong Zhong, Sarah Berhane, Hidenori Toyoda, KeQing Shi, Toshifumi Tada, Charing C.N. Chong, Bang-De Xiang, Le-Qun Li, Paul B.S. Lai, Giorgio Ercolani, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Masatoshi Kudo, Matteo Cescon, Antonio Daniele Pinna, Tak Source Type: research