Abstract:Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma is an important public health problem worldwide and in Egypt. It has a bad prognosis and few treatment options. HCV and HBV infection and exposure to pesticides and aflatoxins are major risk factors for its development, so paying more attention to prevention via raising population awareness about its risk factors may be useful in lowering HCC incidence. This study was implemented to study knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of a rural community of Menoufia governorate, … Show more
“…High school is the education most patients take in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital because of HCC with 39 patients (65%). The same thing happened in the research of Yehia et al (2020) that 49.2% of HCC patients had reached the secondary level of education. However, Turati et al (2013) research stated that patients with HCC who reached the level of education for 12 years were the lowest at 14 (8%).…”
Section: Table 1 General Characteristics Of Hcc Patientssupporting
Introduction: Primary liver cancer is the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide in 2020, with approximately 906,000 new cases and 830,000 deaths. Primary liver cancer includes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with a percentage of 75%-85% of cases. The poor prognosis of HCC is mainly related to late diagnosis.Methods: This research is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional study. Data retrieval is taken from secondary data in the form of medical record data. The sampling technique used was the total sampling technique.Results: The number of HCC patients in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital for 1 January 2017–31 December 2019 who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria was 60. The male sex had the highest number of 43 patients (71.7%), with the highest age group being 50-59 years old.Conclusion: Profile of HCC patients in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital for the 2017-2019 period, the largest age group was 50-59 years, dominated by male sex, the most risk factors were HBsAg positive, high liver function tests, high tumor markers, and had BCLC stage C. The patient had a live clinical outcome.
“…High school is the education most patients take in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital because of HCC with 39 patients (65%). The same thing happened in the research of Yehia et al (2020) that 49.2% of HCC patients had reached the secondary level of education. However, Turati et al (2013) research stated that patients with HCC who reached the level of education for 12 years were the lowest at 14 (8%).…”
Section: Table 1 General Characteristics Of Hcc Patientssupporting
Introduction: Primary liver cancer is the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide in 2020, with approximately 906,000 new cases and 830,000 deaths. Primary liver cancer includes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with a percentage of 75%-85% of cases. The poor prognosis of HCC is mainly related to late diagnosis.Methods: This research is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional study. Data retrieval is taken from secondary data in the form of medical record data. The sampling technique used was the total sampling technique.Results: The number of HCC patients in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital for 1 January 2017–31 December 2019 who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria was 60. The male sex had the highest number of 43 patients (71.7%), with the highest age group being 50-59 years old.Conclusion: Profile of HCC patients in the Internal Medicine Inpatient Room at Dr. Soetomo General Academic Hospital for the 2017-2019 period, the largest age group was 50-59 years, dominated by male sex, the most risk factors were HBsAg positive, high liver function tests, high tumor markers, and had BCLC stage C. The patient had a live clinical outcome.
“…Hepatocellular carcinoma is a primary tumor of the liver, which arises from liver cells and constitutes about 90% of all primary liver cancer types that usually develops in the setting of chronic liver disease, particularly in patients with chronic hepatitis B and C. HCC has a rising incidence in Egypt mostly due to high prevalence of viral hepatitis and its complications [1,2].…”
Background
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the fourth in Egypt. Persistent inflammation and specific somatic mutations in driving genes play a major role in the development of HCC. One of these somatic mutations is CTNNB1 mutations with subsequent activation of β-catenin in HCC, associated with a risk of malignant transformation. In this study, we investigate the clinical utility of peripheral blood circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) CTNNB1 (rs121913407) in HCC patients compared to pathological chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients and healthy controls.
Methods
Our study is a case-control study at the Ain Shams Centre for Organ Transplantation, Ain Shams University Hospitals, enrolling twenty-eight adult HCC patients (twelve early HCC patients and sixteen advanced HCC patients), ten patients with chronic hepatitis C as a disease control group, and ten healthy controls. We collected plasma and stored at −80 °C. We detected mutations in the gene locus CTNNB1 rs121913407 by real-time PCR.
Results
All of our studied cases (early and advanced HCC) in addition to HCV and healthy control groups were CTNNB1 wild (TT) genotype. There was statistical significant difference between early and late cases of HCC as regards AFP and AST.
Conclusions
None of our recruited subjects showed CTNNB1 rs121913407 gene mutation. Further studies on larger number of patients are needed to clarify and confirm the clinical utility of CTNNB1 single-nucleotide polymorphism in the pathogenesis of HCC related to HCV in Egyptian population.
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