Summary The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half of the global population and
accounted for 62· 6% of global deaths due to liver diseases in 2015. 54· 3% of global deaths …

Background Health equity for Indigenous peoples in the context of surgery has recently
become topical amongst surgeons in Australasia. Health inequities are amongst the most …

PURPOSE While cancer survival is improving across most developed nations, those
improvements are not shared equally within their population. Using high-quality national …

In New Zealand, there are known disparities between the Indigenous Māori and the majority
non-Indigenous European populations in access to cancer treatment, with resulting …

Methods We included original research articles of studies of patients already diagnosed with
hepatocellular carcinoma that reported the proportion of hepatocellular carcinoma …

Background/objective Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a multistep process starting from
chronic hepatitis (CH) that progress through cirrhosis to HCC. The expression level of …

Methods: Real time quantitative PCR was done to find out the miRNA expression level in
terms of Ct value followed by statistical analysis. Results: Over-expression of miR-183 and …

ABSTRACT Māori diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die—and to die sooner—than
non-Māori with cancer. If we accept that these inequities are unfair and avoidable, then we …

ABSTRACT Māori are more likely than non-Māori to get cancer, and once they have cancer
they are less likely to survive it. One frequently proposed explanation for this survival …

Simple Summary Liver transplantation (LT) is considered the only curative therapeutic
option for early, unresectable, and unablatable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), particularly …