Time to surgery is not an oncological risk factor in HCC patients undergoing liver resection.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Given limitations of the health care systems in case of unforeseeable events, e.g., the COVID pandemic as well as trends in prehabilitation, time from diagnosis to surgery (time to surgery, (TTS)) has become a research issue in malignancies. Thus, we investigated whether TTS is associated with oncological outcome in HCC patients undergoing surgery.

Methods

A monocentric cohort of 217 patients undergoing liver resection for HCC between 2009 and 2021 was analyzed. Individuals were grouped according to TTS and compared regarding clinical characteristics. Overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) was compared using Kaplan-Meier analysis and investigated by univariate and multivariable Cox regressions.

Results

TTS was not associated with OS (p=0.126)

SUBMITTER: Otto CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10169875 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature