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Epidemiology of HCC in Brazil: Incidence and risk factors in a ten-year cohort
Denise C. Paranaguá-Vezozzo
,**,
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denise.vezozzo@hc.fm.usp.br
denise.paranagua@gmail.com

Correspondence and reprint request:
, Suzane K. Ono*,**, Mónica V. Alvarado-Mora*,**, Alberto Q. Farias*,**, Marione Cunha-Silva**, João I.D. França**, Venancio A.F. Alves*,***, Morris Sherman****, Flair José Carrilho*,**
* São Paulo Clínicas Liver Cancer Group, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
** Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
*** Department of Pathology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
**** Department of Gastroenterology, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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70-90&#37; of HCCs develop in cirrhotic patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> In addition&#44; the risk of HCC in patients with cirrhosis depends on the activity and duration of the inflammatory process underlying the cirrhotic process&#46; The leading cause of HCC varies according to environmental factors&#46;</p><p id="p0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; to date&#44; the incidence of HCC and major risk factors in Brazil are unknown&#46; We conducted this prospective study with the aim of determining the incidence and risk factors for HCC in a large cohort of Brazilian patients with cirrhosis&#44; with long-term follow up&#46;</p></span><span id="s0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0020">Material and Methods</span><span id="s0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0025">Patients</span><p id="p0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The current study was performed with outpatients from the University of S&#227;o Paulo School of Medicine&#44; the largest referral center for hepatology in Brazil&#44; from January 1998 to August 2008&#46;</p></span><span id="s0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0030">Study design</span><p id="p0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We initially enrolled 1&#44;375 cirrhotic patients recruited during 5 years&#44; classified as follows according to the etiology&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Hepatitis C&#44; defined by anti-HCV &#40;&#43;&#41; and HCV-RNA &#40;&#43;&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Hepatitis B&#44; defined by HBsAg &#40;&#43;&#41; and HBV-DNA &#40;&#43;&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Alcohol abuse&#44; by an intake of more than 60 g of ethanol&#47;day &#40;females&#41; or more than 80 g of ethanol&#47;day &#40;males&#41;&#44; for more than 10 years&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">NASH&#44; by the presence of metabolic syndrome&#44; diagnosed as reported elsewhere&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> or by biopsy and miscellaneous &#40;other factors&#44; including cryptogenic cirrhosis and viral co-infection&#41;&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="p0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To ensure that patients involved in this study were initially free of tumor&#44; we excluded 491 patients whose last ultrasonography &#40;US&#41; was more than 6 months prior to inclusion&#46; Whenever clinically indicated&#44; histological diagnosis from 14 Gauge needle biopsy was adopted&#46; The presence of underlying cirrhosis was assessed histologically in 312&#47;884 patients &#40;35&#46;3&#37;&#41; or by clinically significant portal hypertension in 572&#47;884 patients &#40;64&#46;7&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thus&#44; our study sample was composed of a cohort of 884 patients aged 17-84 years with compensated cirrhosis who were tumor&#44; ascites and jaundice free at time zero&#46;</p><p id="p0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The liver ultrasonography exams were performed by the same operator &#40;DCPV&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="s0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0035">Follow up and tumor staging</span><p id="p0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Patients were followed up for at least 60 months or until death up to August 2008 for HCC tumor development with US examinations and serum AFP levels&#46; The patients were followed up by ultrasonography exams alone and AFP levels were checked at entry and at time of diagnosis&#46; When we took patient adherence issues into account&#44; most of our sample &#40;74&#46;7&#37;&#41; received their US scans within 12 months&#46; A sub analysis was also performed of the 660 patients in this subset&#44; while the other 224 patients were unable to complete regular surveillance&#46;</p><p id="p0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We registered a minimum of four checkpoints for each patient&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Pretest time &#40;1&#44;375 patients enrolled&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0030"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Time zero or Baseline &#40;those who fulfilled the inclusion criteria&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0035"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Diagnosis time &#40;period of development of the HCC&#41;&#44; and</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0040"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Final time &#40;final US&#44; or censored data &#40;which occurs if a patient withdraws from a study&#44; i&#46;e&#46; is lost from the sample before the final outcome is observed&#41;&#44; or time of mortality in relation to the time zero checkpoint&#41;&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="p0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is relevant to note that many patients were also evaluated in between checkpoints 2 and 3&#44; checkpoints 3 and 4&#44; or checkpoints 2 and 4&#59; since these examinations did not correspond to a checkpoint within the study&#44; they were computed but not considered&#46;</p><p id="p0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Any presumed HCC lesion detected by US at time of diagnosis was confirmed by at least one of the following diagnostic criteria&#58; positive histology&#44; or two imaging techniques compatible with HCC &#40;computed tomography and magnetic resonance with arterial enhancement and washout&#41;&#44; or one of the previously mentioned imaging results &#40;any technique&#41; suggestive of HCC plus serum AFP levels &#62; 400 ng&#47;mL&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p></span><span id="s0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0040">Incidence and risk factors</span><p id="p0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Additional data recorded included&#58; gender&#44; age&#44; ethnic origin&#44; etiology of cirrhosis&#44; size and number of nodules&#44; presence of macroscopic tumorous thrombosis&#44; time of follow up&#44; interval between US exams&#44; and blood laboratory analysis&#46; Laboratory analysis included&#58; platelet count&#44; albumin&#44; bilirubin&#44; creatinine&#44; glucose&#44; international normalized ratio &#40;INR&#41; and serum AFP&#46; Laboratory data were obtained at time zero and at time of diagnosis from patient medical records&#46; We also calculated the mathematical model for end-stage liver disease &#40;MELD&#41; score for all the patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Detected tumors were also classified as within or outside the Milan Criteria&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a></p><p id="p0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The cumulative annual incidence included all 884 patients &#40;812 HCC-free patients and 72 HCC patients&#41;&#46; However&#44; some patients were censored at the time of liver transplantation &#40;OLT&#41; &#40;1&#46;4&#37;&#41;&#44; developed other tumors &#40;0&#46;7&#37;&#41;&#44; died due to causes unrelated to liver cirrhosis &#40;4&#46;6&#37;&#41; or were lost before follow up &#40;22&#46;2&#37;&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="s0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0045">Statistical analysis</span><p id="p0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Pearson &#967;<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span>&#44; Fisher exact&#44; Mann-Whitney&#44; and Student-t tests were used to evaluate differences in demographic&#44; clinical&#44; and etiologic features of the patient groups and tumor characteristics&#46;</p><p id="p0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Survival time was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and survival curves were compared using the log-rank test&#46; The survival times of HCC patients were analyzed starting from the time of enrollment&#46;</p><p id="p0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The association between different variables and the development of HCC over time was assessed using univariate Cox analysis&#46; Multivariate analysis with a backward stepwise method and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis were performed with variables that attained a p value &#60; 0&#46;1 in a univariate analysis&#46; In order to avoid the common problems of over fitting and collinearity&#44; several different models were created with variables that were statistically significant in a univariate analysis &#40;p &#60; 0&#46;1&#41; or were clinically relevant&#46; The modeling strategy used in this study was based on a reduction in the likelihood ratio &#40;- 2LL&#41; of the different models developed and the number of variables in each model&#46; The lower the value of - 2LL&#44; the more explanatory power the model has over variability in the data&#46; A <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span> value of 0&#46;05 or less was considered statistically significant&#46;</p><p id="p0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Statistical analyses were made using the &#8220;R&#8221; program and its extensions and SPSS 18&#44; Copyright IBM Corporation 2010&#44; IBM Corporation&#44; Route 100&#44; Somers&#44; NY 10589&#44; U&#46;S&#46;A&#46;</p></span><span id="s0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0050">Ethical considerations</span><p id="p0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Review Board and patients signed an informed consent form of their own free will&#46;</p></span></span><span id="s0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0055">Results</span><span id="s0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0060">Study population</span><p id="p0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As shown in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0005">table 1</a>&#44; the majority of the 884 compensated cirrhotic patients included in this study were men&#44; with a mean age of 55&#46; Between 1998 and 2008&#44; 72 &#40;8&#46;1&#37;&#41; patients developed HCC &#40;HCC patients&#41; with a median of diagnosis time of 21&#46;4 months &#40;a minimum of 6 months and maximum of 59&#46;0 months&#41;&#46; Thirty-six of these patients were still alive at the end of the study&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Most patients&#44; 79&#46;2&#37; &#40;57&#47;72&#41;&#44; were classified within the Milan Criteria and 70&#46;8&#37; &#40;51&#47;72&#41; displayed single nodules&#44; 33&#46;3&#37; &#40;24&#47;72&#41; of which were less than 20 mm in diameter &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46; The median size of all tumors was 21 mm &#40;8-92 mm&#44; SD 8&#46;45 mm&#41;&#46; HCC diagnosis was confirmed by histology in 33&#46;3&#37; of the cases&#44; the use of two imaging methods in 59&#46;7&#37;&#44; and by imaging plus serum AFP levels in 7&#37;&#46; HCV was the major etiological factor of HCC&#44; in 65&#46;3&#37; of patients&#44; as well as cirrhosis in 56&#46;9&#37; of patients at baseline&#46; In Brazil&#44; the cut-off MELD score to list a patient for liver transplantation is 16&#46; Thus&#44; at time zero&#44; 82 patients &#40;9&#46;3&#37;&#41; had MELD scores &#62; 16&#44; whereas in the HCC group&#44; 10 &#40;13&#46;9&#37;&#41; had MELD scores &#62; 16 &#40;p &#61; 0&#46;327&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging &#40;BCLC&#41; was adopted in the HCC patients and was distributed as follows&#58; BCLC-A &#40;79&#46;2&#37;&#41;&#44; BCLC-B &#40;12&#46;5&#37;&#41; and BCLC-C &#40;8&#46;3&#37;&#41;&#46; The treatments performed were &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1</a>&#41;&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0015"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0045"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">16&#46;6&#37;&#58; liver transplantation &#40;LT&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0050"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">7&#46;0&#37;&#58; resection&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0055"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">44&#46;5&#37;&#58; percutaneous ethanol injection &#40;PEI&#41;&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0060"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">12&#46;5&#37;&#58; transcatheter arterial chemoembolization &#40;TACE&#41;&#59; and</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0065"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">19&#46;4&#37;&#58; palliative care&#46;</p></li></ul></p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Approximately 10&#37; of HCC-free patients and 27&#46;8&#37; of HCC patients had initial AFP levels above 20 ng&#47;mL &#40;reference value for increased risk of HCC development&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="p0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One hundred and ninety-seven out of the 884 &#40;22&#46;2&#37;&#41; were lost before follow up&#46; The mean MELD value of these patients was MELD 11&#46;4 at entry&#46;</p></span><span id="s0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0065">Incidence and risk factors</span><p id="p0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The annual incidence of HCC was 2&#46;9&#37;&#46; The cumulative incidence increased from 1&#46;7&#37; at year one to 5&#46;9&#37; at year two&#44; 8&#46;6&#37; at year three&#44; 12&#46;4&#37; at year four and 14&#46;3&#37; at year five &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0010">Figure 2</a>&#41;&#46; HCV patients presented the highest overall incidence rate with 16&#46;9&#37;&#44; followed closely by HCB group with 15&#46;3&#37;&#46; The smallest rate was found in the NASH with 4 &#37; and ethanol group with 5&#46;7&#37; of HCC over five years and finally&#44; the miscellaneous etiology group with 7&#46;7&#37; in the same period&#46; 79&#46;2&#37; &#40;57&#47;72&#41; of HCCs were detected within Milan Criteria&#44; and the mean survival time was 52&#46;3 months&#44; significantly higher than for those outside Milan&#44; with a mean time of 40&#46;6 months &#40;p &#61; 0&#46;0003&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Among the adherence group&#44; 55&#47;660 &#40;8&#46;3&#37;&#41; developed HCC over the five year period&#44; and the cumulative incidence rate was 13&#46;9&#37;&#44; of this group 80&#37; fell within the Milan criteria and 20&#37; outside&#46; The overall mean survival curve of HCC patients over five years within the Milan Criteria was 52&#44;6 compared to 38&#44;5 months outside Milan Criteria&#44; p &#60; 0&#46;001&#46;</p><p id="p0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0015">Figure 3</a> compares the cumulative survival rates of HCC-free and HCC patients &#40;patients that will have HCC&#41; under the present prospective surveillance program &#40;p &#60; 0&#46;001&#41;&#46; The 5-year survival rate of HCC-free patients was 80&#37;&#44; whereas the 5-year survival rate of HCC patients was 53&#46;2&#37;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0015"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In a univariate analysis&#44; 6 of 8 variables showed statistical significance &#40;p &#60; 0&#46;05&#41;&#58; serum albumin&#44; platelet count&#44; MELD score&#44; ethnicity &#40;mixed Brazilian ethnicity or Brazilian-East Asian descendants&#41;&#44; viral etiology &#40;yes&#47;no&#41;&#44; and serum AFP &#40;&#62; 20 ng&#47;mL&#41;&#46; Age and gender were considered control variables&#46; The factors related to higher annual incidence of HCC were&#58; East Asian ethnicity&#44; serum albumin level and serum AFP dosage &#62; 20 ng&#47;mL&#44; which remained independent predictors of the development of HCC during follow up in a multivariate analysis&#46; This model had the lowest likelihood ratio &#40;-2LL&#41; with the smallest number of variables &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span></span><span id="s0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0070">Discussion</span><p id="p0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To investigate the incidence of HCC in cirrhotic patients and the risk factors associated with it in Brazil&#59; we prospectively evaluated a cohort of 884 cirrhotic patients using US&#44; AFP levels&#44; and clinical parameters in a follow up lasting 5-10 years&#46;</p><p id="p0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Examination of the incidence of HCC in cirrhotic patients revealed remarkable gender and age variations in Brazil&#46; In our cohort&#44; from the largest Brazilian public referral center receiving patients from all over the country&#44; men were more likely to be affected than women&#44; a finding similar to that reported in studies performed in the USA&#44; Japan&#44; and Italy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Likewise&#44; HCV was the main etiology of the cirrhosis and HCC&#46; This observation is supported by Carrilho&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> who reported HCV as the most common etiology of liver cirrhosis and HCC development in Brazil&#46; Prior to this&#44; Brazil was considered to have a low prevalence of HCC and HBV was thought to be the most common cause of liver disease&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a></p><p id="p0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Studying an Italian cohort&#44; Sangiovanni&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> identified the mean age of diagnosis of HCC patients as 61 years&#46; In a study in Taiwan&#44; age at diagnosis varied between 50 and 79 years&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> In the United States more than 60&#37; of all HCC patients are 65 or older&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> In a recent Japanese nationwide survey&#44; the mean age of incidence of HCC was 66&#46;6 years&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> In our cohort the mean age of a patient with cirrhosis was 55 and HCC development 57 years&#44; suggesting a younger age of the onset of cirrhosis and HCC development in the Brazilian population&#46; The earlier emergence of cirrhosis and HCC observed in Brazil may be due to restricted access to appropriate antivirals for treating HCV-positive patients in comparison with the treatments employed in more developed countries&#46; Another explanation could relate to the prevalence and early acquisition time of the major HCC risk factors &#40;HCV&#44; HBV&#44; and alcohol induced liver disease&#41; in Brazil in comparison to developed countries&#44; where they tend to be much later&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> In any case&#44; studies have suggested an increase in the incidence rates of HCC in all age groups among all populations&#46; It has further been suggested that carcinogenic factors may have affected various generations of birth cohorts early in life and led to increased HCC risk&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a></p><p id="p0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our results show that the annual incidence of HCC of the population in Brazil is 2&#46;9&#37; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0010">Figure 2</a>&#41;&#46; A similar rising trend and incidence rate &#40;3&#37;&#41; was reported by Sangiovanni&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> while studying a Milanese cohort&#46; Indeed&#44; our sample showed the same proportions of etiology &#40;HCV&#44; HBV&#44; alcohol&#41; as Sangiovanni&#8217;s work&#46; HCC incidence in the United States is also rising&#58; in the period 1981-1985 it was 9&#46;6 per 100&#44;000 whereas by 1991-1995 the incidence was 15&#46;2 per 100&#44;000 &#40;16&#41;&#46; In Japan&#44; HCC has reached almost 40&#47; 100&#44;000 population with 80&#37; caused by HCV infection&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a></p><p id="p0230" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We found that approximately 50&#37; of HCC patients survived for 5 years&#44; a higher number than suggested by Sangiovanni&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> This could be due to differences and more recent advances in the therapeutic strategies employed with these patients&#46; In addition&#44; the Milan criteria analysis showed a significant difference in relation to survival at 60 months&#44; i&#46;e&#46; 52&#46;3 compared to 40&#46;6 months &#40;p &#61; 0&#46;0003&#41;&#46; Although we could not perform a rigid surveillance program in all patients&#44; we have shown herein that&#44; in real life conditions&#44; maintaining the patients under screening even under sub-optimal conditions was also very helpful&#44; still yielding rather early detection&#46; On the other hand&#44; clinical outcomes are still poor when compared with other tumor types&#44; the morbidity and mortality rate of patients with HCC is rising&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="p0235" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The detection rate of small HCC tumors nowadays is comparable with some Japanese centers&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> since we detected tumor nodules with a mean size of 26 mm in 92&#37; of our HCC group&#46; Indeed&#44; we performed research in 2005 &#40;unpublished&#41; on patients outside the surveillance programme&#46; Only 47&#46;3&#37; of the HCC patients were classified as within Milan criteria&#46; Also&#44; during three different periods&#44; the statistics are as follows&#58; from 1988-1993 only 31&#44;7&#37; of HCC were detected within Milan criteria&#59; from 1993-1998 this ratio increased to 61&#46;8&#37; and finally from 1998-2005&#44; with the maturity of the surveillance program among the cirrhotic patients of the Gastroenterology Department&#44; the best numbers were achieved&#44; with 85&#46;7&#37; of HCC patients within Milan criteria&#46;</p><p id="p0240" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We observed that 8&#46;3&#37; of patients developed tumors in the advanced stages&#44; as suggested by the presence of thrombus&#46; We think that these rates will occur in a population even when patients are submitted to frequent and effective surveillance programs&#46; Among our research group&#44; Kikuchi&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> reported 3 cases with vascular invasion in 74 nodules smaller than 30 mm&#46;</p><p id="p0245" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The detection rate of HCC was 8&#46;1&#37; &#40;72&#47;884&#41;&#46; In a multivariate analysis&#44; 3 variables were related to HCC risk including low serum albumin&#44; high AFP &#62; 20 ng&#47;mL&#44; and ethnicity &#40;Brazilian-East Asian descendants versus other mixed Brazilian ethnicities&#41;&#46; According to the model strategy adopted&#44; from a total of seven models&#44; five of them presented serum albumin as a common variable and predictor of HCC development&#46; This result is in agreement with Ripoll&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> who reported that low albumin levels are indicative of the severity of liver disease&#44; poor liver function and a greater risk of developing HCC&#46; We calculated an annual incidence of HCC among a large series of Brazilian cirrhotic patients of around 2&#46;9&#37;&#47;year with frequency of 8&#46;1&#37;&#46; Therefore&#44; AFP measurement&#44; while not yet recommended by the European guidelines&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> remains in common clinical practice for surveillance of patients at risk of HCC&#46; Singal&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> explored the benefit of adding AFP measurement with US for the detection of early HCC in a metaanalysis&#46; The same group published more recently that patterns of AFP over time are independently associated with HCC&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> Nonetheless&#44; as was mentioned&#44; in our cohort only 7&#37; and 55&#37; of the patients with HCC had AFP &#62; 400 and &#62; 20 ng&#47;mL&#44; respectively&#44; at the time of diagnosis&#46; Thus&#44; AFP levels alone rather than as a factor in a dynamic evaluation may&#44; in fact&#44; be a weak tool for HCC diagnosis&#46; However&#44; it may also be very helpful in selecting patients at a higher risk of HCC development or with poor prognoses&#44; because we found higher AFP levels in patients outside the Milan Criteria &#40;albeit without significant differences between the groups&#41;&#46; Further studies on the relevance of using AFP in risk surveillance for HCC development and prognosis are warranted&#46; Finally&#44; the ethnicity variable caught our attention&#44; because 50&#46;0&#37; &#40;8&#47;16&#41; of patients with HBV infection and HCC were Brazilian-East Asian descendants with a family history of HCC&#46;</p><p id="p0250" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The present study&#44; a pioneer in Latin American populations&#44; showed that the mean annual incidence of HCC among this large series of Brazilian cirrhotic patients is around 2&#46;9&#37;&#47;year with a frequency of 8&#46;1&#37;&#46; The factors related to a higher annual incidence of HCC were&#58; East Asian ethnicity&#44; serum albumin level&#44; and serum AFP dosage &#62; 20 ng&#47;mL&#44; which remained independent predictors of the development of HCC during the follow-up in a multivariate analysis&#46; Also&#44; 79&#46;2&#37; of the HCC patients were detected within the Milan Criteria&#44; and the mean survival curve was 52&#46;3 compared to 40&#46;6 months for those outside the Milan Criteria&#46;</p></span><span id="s0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0075">Abbreviations</span><p id="p0255" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0020"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0070"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0260" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">2LL&#58;</span> likelihood ratio&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0075"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0265" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">BCLC&#58;</span> Barcelona clinic liver cancer&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0080"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0270" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HBV&#58;</span> hepatitis B&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0085"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0275" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HCC&#58;</span> hepatocellular carcinoma&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0090"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0280" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HCV&#58;</span> hepatitis C&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0095"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0285" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HR&#58;</span> hazard ratio&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0100"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0290" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">INR&#58;</span> international normalized ratio&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0105"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0295" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">MELD&#58;</span> model for end-stage liver disease&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0110"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0300" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">NASH&#58;</span> non-alcoholic steatohepatitis&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0115"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0305" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">OLT&#58;</span> liver transplantation&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0120"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0310" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">TACE&#58;</span> transcatheter arterial chemoembolization&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0125"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0315" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">US&#58;</span> ultrasonography&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span><span id="s0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0080">Acknowledgements</span><p id="p0320" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We are deeply indebted to Dr&#46; Mauro Tomoyuki Taniguchi for offering data from the Sao Paulo Municipality obituary service&#44; undergraduate student Larissa Arag&#227;o for collecting histology data&#44; Aline Siqueira Ferreira for revising the manuscript and the Alves de Queiroz Family Fund for Research for its continuing sponsoring support&#46;</p></span><span id="s0075" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0085">Grant Support</span><p id="p0325" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study was supported in part by Alves de Queiroz Family Fund for Research&#46;</p></span></span>"
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