Table 1.
Management of HCC patients before and during COVID-19 emergency: a 4-week period in 2019 was compared with a 4-week period in 2020
| Management | 25 February to 22 March 2019 |
24 February to 20 March 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Outpatient visits, n | 117 | 77a |
| Cases discussed in multidisciplinary meetings, n | 46 | 42 |
| Liver transplants for HCC, n | 3 | 1 |
| Surgical resections, n | 3 | 2 |
| MWTA and RFA, n | 4 | 7 |
| TACE, n | 9 | 4 |
| TARE, n | — | 1 |
| Total number of patients admitted to the ward | 58 | 48 |
MWTA, microwave thermal ablation; RFA, radiofrequency ablation; TACE, transarterial chemoembolization; TARE, transarterial radioembolization.
a
Week 1: 35 visits; week 2: 23 visits; week 3: 17 visits; and week 4: 2 visits.