A new study supports exhausting noninvasive methods to diagnose hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) before attempting biopsy. In an analysis of data from the National Cancer Database, overall survival (OS) was lower in HCC patients who underwent preoperative tissue diagnosis compared with those with a clinical diagnosis.
“Preoperative tissue diagnosis of HCC is associated with decreased overall survival in patients in this national cohort,” said Fadi Dahdaleh, MD, a cancer surgeon