Liver Transplant Outcomes Worse for Black Patients With HCC

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Contributor: Fnu Vikash, MD

While liver transplantation was less likely for Black patients with HCC, those who did receive a transplant experienced worse outcomes.

Black patients with hepatocellular carcinoma had lower rates of liver transplantation, as well as more complications and mortality when they did undergo a transplant, than other participants in a study of more than 112,000 patients, according to findings presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Read the full article in Physician’s Weekly.

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