Material deprivation affects the management and clinical outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma in a high-resource environment
- Autori: Cucchetti, Alessandro; Gramenzi, Annagiulia; Johnson, Philip; Giannini, Edoardo G.; Tovoli, Francesco; Rapaccini, Gian Ludovico; Marra, Fabio; Cabibbo, Giuseppe; Caturelli, Eugenio; Gasbarrini, Antonio; Svegliati-Baroni, Gianluca; Sacco, Rodolfo; Zoli, Marco; Morisco, Filomena; Di Marco, Maria; Mega, Andrea; Foschi, Francesco G.; Biasini, Elisabetta; Masotto, Alberto; Nardone, Gerardo; Raimondo, Giovanni; Azzaroli, Francesco; Vidili, Gianpaolo; Brunetto, Maurizia R.; Farinati, Fabio; Trevisani, Franco; Avanzato, Francesca; Biselli, Maurizio; Caraceni, Paolo; Garuti, Francesca; Gramenzi, Annagiulia; Neri, Andrea; Santi, Valentina; Pellizzaro, Filippo; Imondi, Angela; Sartori, Anna; Penzo, Barbara; Sanmarco, Ambra; Granito, Alessandro; Muratori, Luca; Piscaglia, Fabio; Sansone, Vito; Forgione, Antonella; Dajti, Elton; Marasco, Giovanni; Ravaioli, Federico; Cappelli, Alberta; Golfieri, Rita; Mosconi, Cristina; Renzulli, Matteo; Cela, Ester Marina; Facciorusso, Antonio; Cacciato, Valentina; Casagrande, Edoardo; Moscatelli, Alessandro; Pellegatta, Gaia; de Matthaeis, Nicoletta; Allegrini, Gloria; Lauria, Valentina; Ghittoni, Giorgia; Pelecca, Giorgio; Chegai, Fabrizio; Coratella, Fabio; Ortenzi, Mariano; Missale, Gabriele; Olivani, Andrea; Inno, Alessandro; Marchetti, Fabiana; Busacca, Anita; Cabibbo, Giuseppe; Cammà , Calogero; Di Martino, Vincenzo; Maria Rizzo, Giacomo Emanuele; Franzè, Maria Stella; Saitta, Carlo; Sauchella, Assunta; Berardinelli, Dante; Bevilacqua, Vittoria; Borghi, Alberto; Gardini, Andrea Casadei; Conti, Fabio; Dall'Aglio, Anna Chiara; Ercolani, Giorgio; Adotti, Valentina; Arena, Umberto; Di Bonaventura, Chiara; Campani, Claudia; Dragoni, Gabriele; Gitto, Stefano; Laffi, Giacomo; Coccoli, Pietro; Malerba, Antonio; Guarino, Maria; Capasso, Maria; Oliveri, Filippo; Romagnoli, Veronica
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2021
- Tipologia: Articolo in rivista
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/544064
Abstract
Aim: This study investigated how material deprivation in Italy influences the stage of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at diagnosis and the chance of cure. Methods: 4114 patients from the Italian Liver Cancer database consecutively diagnosed with HCC between January 2008 and December 2018 were analysed about severe material depriva- tion (SMD) rate tertiles of the region of birth and region of managing hospitals, according to the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The main outcomes were HCC diagnosis modalities (during or outside surveillance), treatment adoption and overall survival. Results: In more deprived regions, HCC was more frequently diagnosed during surveillance, while the incidental diagnosis was prevalent in the least deprived. Tumour characteristics did not differ among regions. The proportion of patients undergoing potentially curative treat- ments progressively decreased as the SMD worsened. Consequently, overall survival was bet- ter in less deprived regions. Patients who moved from most deprived to less deprived regions increased their probability of receiving potentially curative treatments by 1.11 times (95% CI 1.03 to 1.19), decreasing their mortality likelihood (hazard ratio 0.78 95% CI 0.67 to 0.90). Conclusions: Socioeconomic status measured through SMD does not seem to influence HCC features at diagnosis but brings a negative effect on the chance of receiving potentially curative treatments. Patient mobility from the most deprived to the less deprived regions increased the access to curative therapies, with the ultimate result of improving survival.