Predictors for Early Liver Cancer Survival After Ablation and Surgical Resection: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program-Medicare Study
Charalel R, Mushlin A, Zheng X, Mao J, Carlos R, Brown R, Fortune B, Talenfeld A, Madoff D, Ibrahim S, Johnson M, Sedrakyan A. Predictors for Early Liver Cancer Survival After Ablation and Surgical Resection: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program-Medicare Study. Journal Of The American College Of Radiology 2023, 21: 295-308. PMID: 37922972, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.10.017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCancer-specific mortalityCancer-specific deathSurgical resectionSocial determinantsPortal hypertensionTumor sizeTreatment characteristicsSmall HCCAsian raceDisease factorsMultivariable Cox regression modelsSEER-Medicare studyChronic kidney diseaseHigh-volume centersLarger tumor sizeCox regression modelSignificant protective factorCause mortalityClinical factorsEsophageal varicesIndependent predictorsSEER-MedicareKidney diseaseVolume centersProcedure year