2023
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
2022
Long-Term Survival After Surgery Versus Ablation for Early Liver Cancer in a Large, Nationally Representative Cohort
Charalel RA, Mushlin AI, Li D, Mao J, Ibrahim S, Carlos R, Kwan SW, Fortune B, Talenfeld AD, Brown RS, Madoff DC, Johnson MS, Sedrakyan A. Long-Term Survival After Surgery Versus Ablation for Early Liver Cancer in a Large, Nationally Representative Cohort. Journal Of The American College Of Radiology 2022, 19: 1213-1223. PMID: 36208842, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.07.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer-specific survivalSurgical resectionSmall hepatocellular carcinomaPrior treatment groupsHepatocellular carcinomaSurvival outcomesTreatment groupsSR groupPrior treatmentEnd Results Program-MedicarePropensity-matched hazard ratiosPropensity score-matched comparisonMedian study followNationally Representative CohortCancer-specific mortalityDisease-free survivalCox regression analysisKaplan-Meier curvesLog-rank testEarly liver cancerDifferential survival outcomesHealthcare Common Procedure Coding SystemCause mortalityCause survivalLiver transplant