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PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2017
Authors
Goossens Nicolas, Bian C. Billie, Hoshida Yujin
Studies

Abstract

Current clinical practice guidelines recommend regular hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance with biannual ultrasound with or without serum alpha-fetoprotein uniformly applied to all patients with cirrhosis. However, clinical implementation of this one-size-fits-all strategy has been challenging as evidenced by very low application rate below 20% due to various reasons, including suboptimal performance of the surveillance modalities.