Table 1.
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of patients with HCC meeting eligibility criteria for liver transplantation (tumor staging within Milan criteria, age ≤70, and an absence of contraindicated comorbidities), who did not undergo liver resection
| Transplant Eligible Patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transplanted (N=289) | Not transplanted (N=465) | P-value | |||
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Age (mean, sd) | 57 | 7 | 58 | 8 | 0.001 |
| Median income, USD (median, IQR) | 56537 | [42051,84048] | 61710 | [37897,80000] | 0.06 |
| Miles from hospital (median, IQR) | 12 | [7.1,26.7] | 9 | [5.0,16.7] | <0.001 |
| Gender (female) | 69 | 23.9 | 106 | 22.8 | 0.79 |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.01 | ||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 145 | 50.2 | 174 | 37.4 | |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 29 | 10 | 66 | 14.2 | |
| Hispanic | 73 | 25.3 | 128 | 27.5 | |
| Asian, non-Hispanic | 42 | 14.5 | 95 | 20.4 | |
| English proficiency | 0.89 | ||||
| Non-proficient | 61 | 21.1 | 68 | 14.6 | |
| Proficient | 190 | 65.7 | 218 | 46.9 | |
| U.S. Citizenship status | 0.65 | ||||
| Citizen | 240 | 83 | 260 | 55.9 | |
| Resident | 28 | 9.7 | 29 | 6.2 | |
| Non-documented resident | 5 | 1.7 | 9 | 1.9 | |
| Education level | 0.61 | ||||
| College degree | 99 | 34.3 | 103 | 22.2 | |
| High school | 114 | 39.4 | 145 | 31.2 | |
| Grade school or less | 30 | 10.4 | 36 | 7.7 | |
| Marital Status | 0.52 | ||||
| Married/With partner | 228 | 78.9 | 346 | 74.4 | |
| Separated/Divorced/Widowed | 61 | 21.1 | 104 | 22.4 | |
| Insurance | <0.001 | ||||
| Commercial | 183 | 63.3 | 205 | 44.1 | |
| Government + Supplement | 22 | 7.6 | 47 | 10.1 | |
| Government Only | 80 | 27.7 | 188 | 40.4 | |
| None / Other | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.8 | |
| Liver diagnosis | 0.43 | ||||
| Alcoholic liver disease | 22 | 7.6 | 39 | 8.4 | |
| Hepatitis B | 43 | 14.9 | 81 | 17.4 | |
| Hepatitis C | 189 | 65.4 | 304 | 65.4 | |
| NASH | 9 | 3.1 | 15 | 3.2 | |
| Other | 26 | 9 | 26 | 5.6 | |