University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Neehar Parikh , Laura Malahias , Robert S Brown Jr., Roniel Cabrera , Patricia Denise Jones , Charles Landis , Hannah Lee , Parvez Mantry , Edward Mena , Nishant Poddar , K. Rajender Reddy , Roshan Shrestha , Paul Thuluvath , Richard Zink , Amit G. Singal
Background: Racial/ethnic (R/E) minorities and patients of low socioeconomic (SE) status are reported to have higher mortality related to HCC than their counterparts. However, prior studies are limited to administrative datasets without annotation for clinical covariates or represent single-center data with limited generalizability. The aim of this analysis was to characterize geographic, R/E, and SE disparities in HCC presentation, treatment, and survival among a representative sample of HCC patients in the US. Methods: TARGET-HCC is an observational, retrospective/prospective study of patients with HCC from academic and community sites. Complete medical records from consented patients are abstracted into a secure database. Multivariable logistic regression with random intercepts for site and Cox proportional hazard models with frailty adjustment were fit with adjustment for age, sex, BMI, liver disease etiology (LDE) and history of alcohol abuse to identify factors associated with early HCC detection, receipt of curative-intent therapy (CIT) and overall survival. Results: 925 patients with HCC (63% non-Hispanic white, 21% black, and 8% Hispanic) were consented from 42 sites in the US (22% Northeast, 27% Southeast, 21% Midwest, 14% South, and 16% West). Median age was 64 years and 76% were men. The most common LDE was hepatitis C (72%), and 72% had Child Pugh A cirrhosis. Most patients were diagnosed with early-stage HCC (72% Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer 0/A). CIT was the initial therapy in 249 (32%), including 32% of BCLC 0/A. Although early tumor detection and CIT did not differ by region or R/E, there were SE disparities in CIT. Among those with early stage HCC, patients with private insurance [OR = 0.51, 95% CI (0.29, 0.91)] or Medicaid [OR = 0.50, 95% CI (0.25, 0.97)] were significantly less likely to undergo CIT. Overall survival was associated with BCLC stage and type of HCC treatment, with no significant association with region, R/E, or insurance. Conclusions: In this sample of HCC patients, there were no geographic or R/E disparities in early detection, treatment, and survival although SE disparities in administration of CIT were identified and warrant further study.
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