The Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) classification offers a prognostic stratification of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We recently demonstrated the BCLC's peculiar prognostic ability in a retrospective cohort of HCC patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the BCLC system prospectively in a subsequent separate group of HCC patients enrolled at the same surgically oriented liver unit.
Clinica Chirurgica I, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Gastroenterologiche, School of Medicine, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 2, Policlinico III Piano, 35128 Padova, Italy.