Impact of geographic disparity on liver allocation for hepatocellular cancer in the United States

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 618-625

  Kadry, Zakiyah ^a   Schaefer, Eric W ^b   Uemura, Tadahiro ^a   Shah, Ali Riaz ^a   Schreibman, Ian ^a   Riley III, Thomas R ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dropout; Intention to treat; Liver allocation; Liver tumor; Survival; Transplantation; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857362684     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.08.019     Document Type: Article

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