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]]>Every year, liver cancer claims 740,000 lives worldwide, with 42% of these deaths occurring in China. In China, the 5-year survival for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients is just 14.4%, and over 80% of liver cancer patients diagnosed are those with Hepatitis B. Despite this alarming statistic, early screening and comprehensive, end-to-end disease management approaches remained limited in China. This created a critical gap in care, one that Zhuhai People’s Hospital in collaboration with Roche, aimed to address with the initiation of Project Pearl in 2022.
Project Pearl is a pioneering multi-stakeholder initiative designed to provide holistic care to patients with chronic liver disease by enabling end-to-end chronic disease management involving healthcare professionals, hospital administration, and payors. At its core, the project leverages on the Liver Integrated Solution, comprising of two key digital solutions:
This integrated solution empowers clinicians with the right information at the right time, ensuring informed, precise decision-making throughout the patient’s journey.
Let’s explore how the patient’s journey has evolved under this new framework. Upon their first hospital visit, patients with chronic liver disease are registered on the digital solution, and are evaluated with abdominal ultrasound, AFP, PIVKA-II, and GAAD, aimed at early detection of HCC. The patients’ data and reports are synchronized for physicians to view in real time. Meanwhile, risk stratification scores provide physicians with a clearer understanding of each patient’s likelihood of developing liver cancer, allowing for more personalized, periodic surveillance plans. Physicians are able to easily arrange follow-ups with the patients and track their disease progression over time. Beyond the hospital, an interoperable mobile platform extends support with follow-up reminders, report interpretation, patient education, and 1 on 1 consultation. This empowers patients to better understand their condition and also ensures they receive continuous, standardized care, essential for early detection and intervention. For physicians, the new patient journey not only streamlines operations but also enhances clinical effectiveness by enabling early detection, offering curative treatment options, and improving patient outcomes.
The entire clinical and operational workflow from screening and diagnosis and follow-up is now automated, making it easier to manage every step of care delivery. Once patients are diagnosed with HCC, they are seamlessly transitioned into a comprehensive treatment management system. This integrated approach addresses the following challenges that are commonly observed in MDT care delivery. Lack of standardized MDT clinical protocol, absence of robust post-treatment follow-up system, and limited capabilities to analyse and gain insights from treatment data. Upon transition, a patient’s 360 report is automatically generated to show their entire patient history. This empowers them with data-driven insights to deliver clinical, operational and economic outcomes to manage HCC treatment more effectively and confidently.
Ultimately, Project Pearl enables a win for all stakeholders. For patients, early detection and personalized care plans lead to better outcomes. For physicians, streamlines, standardized workflows and digitally-enabled decision-making support clinical practice in a timely and effective manner. For the health system, the project accelerates the goals of “Healthy China 2030”, improving outcomes at reduced costs. By improving both patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency, we are taking significant steps toward a future where liver cancer can be detected early and treated effectively, creating hope for thousands of lives.
Since its launch, Project Pearl has seem promising results. Till date, 4,972 patients had been screened, and 40 cases of HCC had been diagnosed. Remarkably, 39 of those cases were detected at an early stage, offering significantly better chances for curative treatment. These outcomes demonstrate the project’s real-world impact in transforming liver cancer care and improving patient outcomes.
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]]>Hello everyone. I am Dr. Pisit Tangkijvanich from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Nice to meet all of you.
Hepatocellular Carcinoma, or HCC is one of the most common cancers in Thailand. From Global Cancer Statistic 2020, liver cancers, especially HCC, is the number 1 of cancer in Thailand with its highest incident in men and the fourth highest incidence in women. HCC is also a leading cause of cancer mortality in Thailand, like other countries in Southeast Asia. Together, these data highlight the importance of HCC as a major public health problem in our country.
The majority of HCC occurs in patients with chronic viral hepatitis, including hepatitis B and hepatitis C, fatty liver disease, and heavy alcohol consumption. It is generally accepted that the screening or regular surveillance for HCC should be performed in patients known to be at risk of this cancer, because the surveillance could identify HCC at an early stage and can improve the overall survival of the patients receiving curative treatment, such as surgical resection or liver transplantation.
Most professional society guidelines recommend using ultrasound and serum alpha fetoprotein, or AFP every 6 months for HCC detection in at-risk patients, such as those with cirrhosis. However, ultrasound (US) is operator dependent and its sensitivity is variable between centre to centre. Moreover, the US may have lower sensitivity in patients with obesity or fatty liver disease. As a result of US limitation, more accurate and accessible (surveillance) programs that could improve HCC early detection are required.
Currently, there are several emerging strategies for HCC detection. Among them, GAAD score which is derived from Gender, Age, and the combination of double tumour markers including AFP, and DCP (or PIVKA-II), is a promising tool for early detection of HCC. The available data show that GAAD score is superior to US for HCC diagnosis with a high sensitivity and specificity.
So the aim of our HECON study was to compare cost-effectiveness analysis between GAAD score with the standard-of-care using US plus AFP for HCC surveillance in Thai patients with compensated cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B.
We selected cirrhotic patients in our study because these patients are at-risk of developing HCC as the incidence rate is more than 1.5% per year. For non-cirrhotic hepatitis B, we included this group of patients because the infection is highly prevalent in Thailand and also the subgroup of patients that at-risk of HCC, especially among males older than 40 years, and females older than 50 year, or those with family history of HCC.
So, we performed an economic model with Markov micro-simulation to simulate disease progression for individual patients, based on Thai population data. Literature review and interviews with Thai clinical experts were also used to identify model inputs that reflect current Thai clinical practice. Health states within the model were based on the patient’s underlying liver disease, such as cirrhosis or non-cirrhotic hepatitis B, HCC staging, such as early or late stage and treatment outcome according to the cancer stage.
Our results showed that GAAD score was cost-effective for Thai populations at the willingness to pay threshold of 160,000 THB (or approximately 4,400 USD). In fact, GAAD yielded lower cost and a better health outcome compared to US plus AFP. In addition, sensitivity analysis confirmed that routine surveillance using GAAD score had at least 55% probability of being cost-effective compared to no surveillance.
Together, our data indicate that GAAD score is suitable for use as a screening tool in Thailand.
As the burden of liver cancer is high, HCC surveillance and control must be considered a public health priority. However, in Thailand, national efforts are focused on the control of viral hepatitis, which is primary prevention for HCC rather than the cancer surveillance.
So our data show that the new method using GAAD score is cost-effective, and importantly more feasible than US plus AFP testing, because GAAD score can be done the same day in the clinics. That will help in reducing several patient barriers such as transportation or logistical concerns.
Our data could play an important part in supporting the policymakers for making the best decision within limited resource in our country, to accelerate the reimbursement program for HCC surveillance in the future.
Although our study provides promising results, there might be some concerns about the role of GAAD score as a screening tool for HCC detection. For example, in countries where there are inadequate facility for cancer therapy, the benefit of early detection might be reduced as limited number of patients could achieve curative treatment. In contrast, GAAD score is more suitable in community hospital or rural areas where access to US is limited, such as some areas in Thailand and many countries in the APAC region.
I think the results of HECON study can be used not only in Thailand but also can be applied to other country as well, which had a similar situation as Thailand, for example, the Philippines or Vietnam. Thank you.
The views and opinions expressed by Prof. Pisit Tankijvanich are his own views and opinions. Roche disclaims all liability in relation to these views and opinions.
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]]>TT: Prof. Tawesak Tanwandee
SS: Asst. Prof. Sansnee Senawong
TT: My name is Tawesak Tanwandee, Professor of Medicine, Head of Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital.
SS: Hello, I am the Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sansanee Senawong, Chief of the Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.
TT: Siriraj Hospital is the largest and the oldest hospital in Thailand. As it is a large and highly advanced hospital, a large number of patients come to Siriraj Hospital annually.
SS: The laboratory of the Department of Immunology was certified by the international standard ISO 15189 since May 2006. It has passed the continuous evaluation and inspection for the ISO 15189:2012 standards to date.
TT: As we are a large hospital, we receive patients from other hospitals. The patients who are referred to our hospital are mostly terminally ill. They are already in the terminal stage of cancer.
SS: In Thailand, liver cancer is one of the most common and leading causes of death in cancer patients in the country. We find that over 70% of patients who die of liver cancer are not admitted to the surveillance program, resulting in delayed diagnosis at the terminal stage and they pass away soon after.
TT: For patients at risk of liver cancer, we don’t always have the chance to screen them sufficiently at an early stage. Moreover, an early stage of liver cancer has no visible symptoms. Therefore, the patient does not realize they need to be tested.
SS: In terms of liver cancer, there are still challenges regarding the effectiveness of liver cancer surveillance.
TT: The standard practice for liver cancer surveillance today is composed of ultrasound scans and blood (biomarker) tests to check alpha fetoprotein (AFP) levels every 6 months.
SS: However, we find that the sensitivity rate is as low as 63%.
TT: Due to ultrasound capacity limitations, patients may have to wait for months or even a year for a scan. Ultrasound also relies heavily on the doctor conducting the scan and how meticulous they are. Patients who are obese or have been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, may be difficult to detect liver cancer by ultrasound.
SS: As a laboratory, when choosing a test or a platform for our services, we must take into account the challenge of reporting laboratory results quickly and efficiently to keep up with the increasing laboratory workloads. Also, it has to minimize human errors as much as possible. We need to find an appropriate system that can support various biomarker testing and is reliable.
TT: The data from studies show that PIVKA-II was quicker to detect early stages of liver cancer in patients. Checking the levels of AFP and PIVKA-II at the same time is much more convenient to doctors. Therefore, a single blood test from the patient allows both tests to be run. When testing both, we see for some patients, that the level of AFP is normal but the PIVKA-II level is abnormal. This helps to alert the doctor to abnormalities in the patient.
SS: Providing PIVKA-II to use in our laboratory will help improve the efficiency of early liver cancer surveillance in the future.
TT: There are about 50-60 patients who have used the digital algorithm. And it has been very beneficial to some patients.
SS: But due to the limitations of ultrasound access combined with the sensitivity performance of AFP, considering to add new biomarkers such as PIVKA-II and the digital algorithm will play a very important role.
TT: When applying the digital algorithm, in practice, we have to add two other factors, age and gender. Sometimes, abnormalities in the AFP level or PIVKA-II level is detected. But the digital algorithm shows it as normal. The algorithm makes surveillance more accurate.
SS: According to many studies and the reports from the doctors who directly treat the patients, it was found that using PIVKA-II and the digital algorithm, compared to the results of AFP and ultrasound, which is considered standard/conventional practice, helps detect liver cancer at an early stage more efficiently.
TT: The digital algorithm has simplified the workflow. Every time a patient has a health check, it’s standard practice to run a blood test to check the liver health. With the blood sample, we can run the digital algorithm at the same time. This means the patient only needs to give one blood sample. Everything is done in one visit.
SS: After collecting the samples, the laboratory performs AFP, PIVKA-II, and digital algorithm tests. After the AFP and PIVKA-II test results are reported, the laboratory results will be combined with gender and age to automatically calculate the score. The result will be sent to the LIS or HIS system of the hospital, allowing the doctors to see the test results quickly. This makes the laboratory workflow more convenient and reporting of results faster.
TT: It’s very easy to interpret the result because there is only ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ (score). The doctors don’t need to interpret complicated numbers. When an abnormality in the digital algorithm is found, the doctor should conduct further (confirmatory) testing, especially using medical imaging techniques such as X-ray, CT or MRI scans.
TT: If we use the digital algorithm or PIVKA-II in addition to AFP, the liver cancer surveillance will likely be more accurate because this test already shares the same platform as their regular blood tests. And this will help us to decide if the patient is at risk of cancer, or need further surveillance tests. We might be able to detect the liver cancer at an earlier stage in more patients and provide successful treatment.
TT: In patients who have been screened and found to have liver cancer, over 90% of them live longer than 5 years. In this case, it changes the patient’s life. If we can use other surveillance methods such as PIVKA-II or the digital algorithm, it might help to improve surveillance effectiveness.
SS: The department is very pleased to have been a part of an important step in using digital diagnostic tools which are helping liver cancer patients have a better quality of life and increase the survival rate.
TT: At Siriraj Hospital, we provide knowledge and raise awareness for everyone, which includes both patients and healthcare workers. So, the patients who are at risk of liver cancer, can receive surveillance regularly. We hope that in the future, every patient who is at risk of liver cancer, everyone in Siriraj Hospital, will receive the surveillance process regularly.
The views and opinions expressed by Prof. Tawesak Tanwandee and Asst. Prof. Sansnee Senawong are their own views and opinions. Roche disclaims all liability in relation to these views and opinions.
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Hello everyone! Welcome to this video. I’m Ronald, the General Manager of Roche Diagnostics Hong Kong. It’s my honour today to invite Professor Yuen to have a discussion around the topics of hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hello Professor Yuen.
Hi, I am Professor MF Yuen, the Chief of Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the University of Hong Kong.
Again, thank you so much for joining us today. So the first question I would like to get your advice would be, what is the current liver health landscape in Hong Kong; and what are the unmet needs in hepatitis screening and HCC detection in Hong Kong?
At present, Hong Kong still has a high prevalence of 7.8% hepatitis B population, amounting more than 550,000 people. According to the most recent statistics, there were more than 1,700 new cases of liver cancer in 2020. And it is known that more than 80% of Hepatocellular Carcinoma are caused by Hepatitis B infection. Even with this high rate, we do not have population screening program for Hepatitis B infection, and the surveillance for HCC is also suboptimal with respect to the lack of routine regular ultrasound of the liver for Hepatitis B patients. It is mainly due to manpower and financial constraint in the public hospital sector. On top of all these, we do not have a well-organised strategy to deliver disease information to our population. Majority of people do not know the serious disease consequence of Hepatitis B infection which may lead to early death. They also lack of knowledge of early treatment would prevent all these deleterious outcomes.
So I would like to learn from you more, what are the recent advances in the diagnosis of HCC; and how do you see these impacting patient care and the chronic liver disease management in Hong Kong?
From Asian experience, the use of additional biomarkers, such as PIVKA-II, can significantly increase the pick-up rate of HCC at early stage, increase the likelihood for curative treatments, and thus improve the survival. New digital algorithms combining age, gender and biomarkers, such as GAAD and GALAD, have been proposed since 2013, and currently undergoing clinical validations. Recent data presented during APASL 2023 demonstrated that the use of PIVKA-II based algorithm is more cost-effective than current standard of care among Hepatitis B or cirrhotic patients in Hong Kong, which allows an earlier HCC detection and a reduced cost in subsequent HCC treatment.
Let’s switch the gear a bit. So how do you think we can improve the coordination and integration of care among various healthcare providers and systems?
I think the most important step would be the active involvement of different concerned parties, including health care sectors from government, private institutions, policy makers, patient groups, and different NGOs, to establish a core committee which could liaise with different stakeholders to ensure the implementation of different measures to enhance diagnosis rate, screening strategy and treatment.
And to add on, how do you see the future of liver health in Hong Kong, and what steps do you believe need to be taken to improve the patient outcomes?
The future of liver health in Hong Kong depends on whether we could have a statutory body which taking charge of planning, liaising and implementing different measures at different levels.
Thank you Professor. So probably would be my last question. So how do you see the role of the government and the policy in addressing the liver health ecosystem?
Hong Kong government has been working on different policy making processes and decisions by involving different committees. However, the decisiveness should be more enhanced so that policy can be rolled out at a timely manner.
Professor Yuen, thank you so much for your time today and your inspiring insights on the topics of hepatitis and HCC. And I’m sure that there are always many areas that we could further work on together to improve patient outcomes. And thanks a lot for contributing to the “Combating Cancer” educational platform as well. Thank you so much, thank you!
The views and opinions expressed by Prof. MF Yuen are his own views and opinions. Roche disclaims all liability in relation to these views and opinions.
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]]>HCC is a leading cause of cancer mortality in Asia. Causes of HCC include viral hepatitis B and C infections, with recent increases in metabolic disorders, such as NAFLD, also playing a factor.
Early HCC interventions are highly effective and can lead to improved patient outcomes and survival. Therefore, HCC surveillance programs are pivotal in detecting HCC early and making the appropriate interventions.
In this whitepaper, HCC surveillance programs in Asia were analysed. The learnings from well established HCC surveillance programs in Asia, as well as the challenges in areas that have not implemented such programs have highlighted 7 priorities for implementing an HCC surveillance program:
HCC surveillance programs should be fit into the national health strategy where appropriate, taking into account the local incidence and prevelance rates, and existing priorities and resources.
Long-term resourcing and financing is key to making HCC survaillance programs successful. The current health financign system in the area, and ability to pay should be assessed, while exploring various funding methods such as centralised healthcare coverage or private insurance.
The development of HCC surveillance program should be based on data, such as HCC epidemiology, patient outcomes, human and economic cost of HCC. These data should be collected and analysed.
Technology can help to improve access to HCC surveillance programs, as well as improve patient outcomes by detecting HCC early. Some examples include: including additional biomarkers such as PIVKA-II, using biomarker based digital algorithms and diagnostic models, using more advanced imaging techniques, and adapting IT systems to support surveillance programs.
Tapping on exisiting resources to expand capacity for HCC care and surveillance., For example increasing the range of HCPs who can diagnose and manage HCC like primary and community HCPs, expanding private healthcare capacity in HCC care.
Governmental decision-makers, physicians, patients and PAGs, payers and industry need to come together to drive implementation of a robust HCC surveillance programs that address needs of all stakeholders.
Raising the knowledge among the general population and HCPs on HCC and the importance of surveillance can improve uptake and compliance to surveillance programs.
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]]>Singal AG, Zhang E, Narasimman M, Rich NE, Waljee AK, Hoshida Y, Yang JD, Reig M, Cabibbo G, Nahon P, Parikh ND, Marrero JA...
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]]>There is controversy regarding the overall value of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance in patients with cirrhosis given the lack of data from randomized-controlled trials. To address this issue, a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies evaluating the benefits and harms of HCC surveillance in patients with cirrhosis was conducted.
A search of the Medline and EMBASE databases and national meeting abstracts were performed for studies reporting early-stage HCC detection, curative treatment receipt, or overall survival, stratified by HCC surveillance status, among patients with cirrhosis, from January 2014 through July 2020. Pooled risk ratios (RRs) and hazard ratios, according to HCC surveillance status, were calculated for each outcome using the DerSimonian and Laird method for random effects models.
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]]>The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of combined detection of 5 serological tumor markers including macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and abnormal prothrombin (PIVKA-II) in the early diagnosis of primary liver cancer.
A total of 90 patients with suspected primary liver cancer admitted from January 2016 to May 2017 were selected as the research subjects. All patients were examined by imaging and histopathology. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect serum MIF, GP73 and PIVKA-II. Automatic electrochemiluminescence immunoassay system was used to detect serum AFP and AFP-L3. The diagnostic value of single and combined detection of five serological tumor markers for primary liver cancer was compared and analyzed.
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]]>What are the greatest challenges in the early detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)?
So, what are the greatest challenges in the early detection of HCC? I would say, it’s firstly identifying the patients who are at risk for HCC; and in the large, that’s the patients with cirrhosis, and at the moment we’re not detecting those patients with cirrhosis, who are the greatest population at risk. So, what do we need to do about that? Well, we need to find them; and that means empowering the GPs, particularly, to have early detection of cirrhosis, so they can enroll patients in surveillance for HCC.
What is one thing you would do to improve HCC surveillance?
If I was to improve one thing in HCC surveillance, what would that be? Well again, I think it’s that first step in identifying the patients who need surveillance. But then once you’ve done that, how do you get most patients to surveillance? Well in the Australian context, that’s going to mean having a test that’s affordable, and that’s effective, and that is applicable to patients wherever they are in Australia. So it might be that one sort of test is available to somebody who lives very close to a major tertiary hospital, but for many many people in Australia, they’re not in that situation. They’re going to be living in rural or remote Australia, in regional towns, all over the country; because the risks of liver disease are diverse, and we’ve got to have a surveillance test that is applicable to all of them.
What are the challenges for patients in maintaining HCC surveillance? How can we overcome these?
So these are patients who we know they should be having surveillance. The patients know they should be having surveillance, and their doctors know they should be having surveillance, and there are challenges yet to getting those patients in regular surveillance. And by surveillance, we mean an assessment that’s conducted every 6 months, and currently that would be an ultrasound with or without an AFP level. So the challenges those patients have is firstly, they forget, their doctors forget, they drop out of follow up. The COVID pandemic had a huge impact in people being reluctant to access care and to go to diagnostic centers for imaging, for blood tests even. And then there are patients that move. There are patients that have to pay out of pocket to access testing, so the financial barrier is huge, and particularly the community of patients who live with liver disease are often the patients who can’t afford to access non-Medicare funded investigations. So having tests that are affordable, accessible, near them that they remember to have with regular reminders, are all ways that we can overcome those challenges.
What is the optimal model of care in HCC surveillance?
So what is an optimal model of care for an HCC surveillance program? Well it might be that there is not one model for everybody; and if people are coming regularly to a major center or have access to high quality ultrasound and blood testing, then a combination of ultrasound and blood testing might be what’s suitable for them. For other patients, another model of care might be more appropriate where they don’t have regular access to ultrasound, but where a blood test that had high sensitivity and high specificity may fill that gap. So it’s going to be varied, it’s going to be dependent on what the access to medical care is, what the access to imaging and blood testing care is, what the access to, perhaps, nursing care is; dependent on where that patient is, and where they live in the country.
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]]>Tzartzeva K, Obi J, Rich NE, Parikh ND, Marrero JA, Yopp A, Waljee AK, Singal AG...
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]]>This study aimed to compare the performance of surveillance imaging with or without alpha fetoprotein (AFP) for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis. The researchers searched MEDLINE and SCOPUS and found that ultrasound alone had low sensitivity for detecting early-stage HCC, but the addition of AFP significantly increased sensitivity. The study concluded that ultrasound plus AFP measurement is a more effective surveillance strategy for detecting HCC in clinical practice. However, only a few studies evaluated computed tomography or magnetic resonance image-based surveillance, which detected HCC with high sensitivity.
Authors: Kristina Tzartzeva, Joseph Obi, Nicole E. Rich, Neehar D. Parikh, Jorge A. Marrero, Adam Yopp, Akbar Waljee, Amit G. Singal
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