Outcomes of Patients with Scirrhous Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Insights from the National Cancer Database.

Ayesha FarooqKatiuscha MerathAnghela Z ParedesLu WuDiamantis I TsilimigrasJ Madison HyerKota SaharaRittal MehtaEliza W BealTimothy M Pawlik

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

Patients with the scirrhous variant had a comparable overall survival compared with individuals who had non-scirrhous HCC. Failure to receive liver-directed therapy, advanced AJCC stage (III/IV), and treatment at a non-academic facility was strongly associated with a worse long-term prognosis.

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