Competing risk model for prognostic comparison between clear cell type and common type hepatocellular carcinoma: A population-based propensity score matching study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clear cell type hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an uncommon neoplasm with an ambivalent prognosis compared to common type HCC.

Methods

First, patients with clear cell or common type HCC were enrolled from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, and their demographic and clinical characteristics were identified. Next, overall survival (OS), disease-specific survival (DSS), and subgroup analysis of the two types of HCC were performed. Next, we utilized a competing risk model to focus on cancer-caused death. Finally, propensity score matching (PSM) was employed to reduce the confounding factors based on the histopathological type, and sensitivity analysis was conducted.

Results

A total of 205 cases of clear cell type HCC and 29,954 c

SUBMITTER: Zhong X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10225237 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature