Liver Cancer Has a Distinctive Profile in Black Patients: Current Screening Guidelines May Be Inadequate

There is mounting evidence that Black patients develop more advanced liver cancers with less advanced liver disease. These findings have important implications for the future of liver cancer screening.

[1]  A. Branch,et al.  Hepatitis C‐positive Black patients develop hepatocellular carcinoma at earlier stages of liver disease and present with a more aggressive phenotype , 2021, Cancer.

[2]  J. Marrero,et al.  Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes of Hepatocellular Carcinoma , 2019, Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

[3]  N. Chalasani,et al.  Racial Disparities in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Are Not Explained by Differences in Comorbidities, Liver Disease Severity, or Tumor Burden , 2018, Hepatology communications.

[4]  Julie C. Sung,et al.  At Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, African Americans With Hepatitis C Have Better Liver Function Than Other Patients , 2018, Clinical liver disease.

[5]  M. Abecassis,et al.  Diagnosis, Staging, and Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: 2018 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases , 2018, Hepatology.

[6]  Paul L. Martin,et al.  The Impact of Race on Survival After Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Diverse American Population , 2018, Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

[7]  N. Venepalli,et al.  Features of hepatocellular carcinoma in Hispanics differ from African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites , 2017, World journal of hepatology.

[8]  Peter J. Richardson,et al.  Hepatocellular carcinoma in the absence of cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection. , 2017, Journal of hepatology.

[9]  E. Bagiella,et al.  Disentangling the effects of race and socioeconomic factors on liver transplantation rates for hepatocellular carcinoma , 2016, Clinical transplantation.

[10]  D. Abbott,et al.  Does race affect management and survival in hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States? , 2015, Surgery.

[11]  N. Giama,et al.  Clinical Features Associated with Survival Outcome in African-American Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma , 2019, The American Journal of Gastroenterology.