Impact of Surveillance in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients on Long-Term Outcomes After Curative Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

• Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery Vol. 24; no. 9; pp. 1987 - 1995
• Main Authors: Li, Zhen-Li, Wu, Han, Wei, Yong-Peng, Zhong, Qian, Song, Jin-Chao, Yu, Jiong-Jie, Li, Chao, Wang, Ming-Da, Xu, Xin-Fei, Li, Ju-Dong, Han, Jun, Xing, Hao, Lau, Wan Yee, Wu, Meng-Chao, Shen, Feng, Yang, Tian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Cancer surgery; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - surgery; Gastroenterology; Hepatectomy; Hepatitis; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B, Chronic - complications; Humans; Interferon; Liver cancer; Liver Neoplasms - surgery; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - epidemiology; Original Article; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Surgery; Surgical outcomes; Recurrence; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver resection; Hepatitis B virus; Surveillance; Survival

Background Clinical guidelines recommend surveillance in high-risk population to early detect hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), when curative treatment such as liver resection can be applied. However, it is largely unknown whether surveillance would provide long-term survival benefits to these high-ri...