🌱 created from: hepatocellular carcinoma

epidemiology-of-hepatocellular_carcinoma

• Primary liver CA—6th most common CA worldwide (905,000/y) & 3rd leading cause of worldwide CA mortality (830,000/y); ∼80% is HCC
• >80% cases of HCC occur in sub-Saharan Africa, eastern & southeastern Asia; Europe & North America have intermediate incidence rates (Globocan 2020)
• 6th leading cause of CA mortality in US; in recent years, decades-long ↑ in the incidence of HCC-related mortality in US has plateaued (CA Cancer J Clin 2020;70:7)