Background & Aims Incidence rates for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) increased rapidly in the United States since the 1990s, but have plateaued or started to decrease in other …
B Njei, Y Rotman, I Ditah, JK Lim - Hepatology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The rise in incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States has been well documented. The purpose of this analysis was to examine temporal trends in HCC …
countries, recent evidence indicates that the gap is closing. This change is thought to be the consequence of what was an “epidemic” of mostly unrecognized acute hepatitis C in the late …
BK Edwards, E Ward, BA Kohler… - … Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract BACKGROUND. The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American …
A Jemal, EM Ward, CJ Johnson… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American …
PURPOSE: To provide evidence of a substantial decline in cancer rates for the period 1991 through 1995 and characterize major risk factors that seem to be driving secular trends in …
Liver cancer is a major contributor to the worldwide cancer burden. Incidence rates of this disease have increased in many countries in recent decades. As the principal histologic type …
Importance Liver cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths globally. The most common causes for liver cancer include hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) …
The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has almost tripled since the early 1980s in the United States, where it is the fastest rising cause of cancerrelated deaths. 1 According to …