A comparison of the proportion of early stage cholangiocarcinoma found in an ultrasound-screening program compared to walk-in patients.
Journal
HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
ISSN: 1477-2574
Titre abrégé: HPB (Oxford)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100900921
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
received:
09
04
2019
revised:
30
08
2019
accepted:
01
10
2019
pubmed:
31
10
2019
medline:
26
10
2021
entrez:
31
10
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) usually have no specific symptoms until an advance stage of the disease and curative treatment is not possible. Patients with early stage, operable disease can be found using ultrasonography (US). A US-screening program was implemented in Thailand where CCA incidence is the highest worldwide. Here we evaluate the effectiveness of the program by comparing the proportion of individuals with early stage CCA in the screening group with that of the walk-in group presenting at hospitals with clinical symptoms. All patients had a pathological diagnosis of CCA. The difference in the proportions and the 95% confidence interval (CI) were obtained using binomial regression. Of the 762 histologically proven CCA cases, 161 were from the screening group and 601 from the walk-in group. The proportion of early stage CCA (stages 0 to II) diagnosed was 84.5% in the screening and 21.6% in the walk-in groups. After adjustment age, gender, and liver fluke infection, there was a significantly higher proportion (P < 0.001) and higher chance (P < 0.001) of having early stage CCA in the screening group than in the walk-in group. US-screening is an effective tool for detecting early stage, operable CCA in high incidence areas.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Patients with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) usually have no specific symptoms until an advance stage of the disease and curative treatment is not possible. Patients with early stage, operable disease can be found using ultrasonography (US). A US-screening program was implemented in Thailand where CCA incidence is the highest worldwide. Here we evaluate the effectiveness of the program by comparing the proportion of individuals with early stage CCA in the screening group with that of the walk-in group presenting at hospitals with clinical symptoms.
METHODS
All patients had a pathological diagnosis of CCA. The difference in the proportions and the 95% confidence interval (CI) were obtained using binomial regression.
RESULTS
Of the 762 histologically proven CCA cases, 161 were from the screening group and 601 from the walk-in group. The proportion of early stage CCA (stages 0 to II) diagnosed was 84.5% in the screening and 21.6% in the walk-in groups. After adjustment age, gender, and liver fluke infection, there was a significantly higher proportion (P < 0.001) and higher chance (P < 0.001) of having early stage CCA in the screening group than in the walk-in group.
CONCLUSIONS
US-screening is an effective tool for detecting early stage, operable CCA in high incidence areas.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31662222
pii: S1365-182X(19)30741-5
doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2019.10.010
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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Pagination
874-883Informations de copyright
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