Liver Cancer Has a Distinctive Profile in Black Patients: Current Screening Guidelines May Be Inadequate

Adam C Winters; Tali Shaltiel; Umut Sarpel; Andrea D Branch

doi:10.1002/hep4.1771

Liver Cancer Has a Distinctive Profile in Black Patients: Current Screening Guidelines May Be Inadequate

Hepatol Commun. 2022 Jan;6(1):8-11. doi: 10.1002/hep4.1771. Epub 2021 Sep 23.

Authors

Adam C Winters¹, Tali Shaltiel², Umut Sarpel², Andrea D Branch³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

There is mounting evidence that Black patients develop more advanced liver cancers with less advanced liver disease. These findings have important implications for the future of liver cancer screening.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Black or African American*
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnosis*
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / ethnology*
Early Detection of Cancer / standards*
Humans
Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Liver Neoplasms / ethnology*
Mass Screening / standards*
Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding