Patient Characteristics and Stage-specific treatment of patients diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma in Klinikum Klagenfurt

Aim: to describe the patient characteristics and the stage-specific treatment for patients diagnosed with HCC in the new Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (KKW) between 2010 – 2015. Methods: This retrospective study analyzed the patients diagnosed with HCC at KKW between 2010 – 2015. The HCC diagnosis was established by histology or specific imaging techniques (CT or MRI). Patients were classified according to Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system and treatment decisions were routinely taken by an institutional gastroenterologic-surgical-oncological interdisciplinary tumor board. Results: We identi…