Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma by Egyptian physicians

Table 3 Relation between physicians’ specialty and knowledge of hepatocellular carcinoma epidemiology

	Specialty				P value
	Specialty A1		Specialty B2
	n	%	n	%
People who should undergo HCC surveillance
Chronic hepatitis B, C and liver cirrhosis	117	90	16	67	0.006a
Positive family history	51	39	3	12	0.112
Everyone	15	11	7	29	0.023a
Reduction of deaths from HCC by screening					0.903
< 30%	31	24	6	25
≥ 30%	99	76	18	75
Risk factors for disease progression
Age	54	41	9		0.712
Regular alcohol consumption	63	48	8	33	0.172
Gender	47	36	3	12	0.023a
Obesity, DM	50	38	5	21	0.098
HCV genotype	74	57	12	50	0.53
Co-infection	69	53	9	37	0.161
Most common cause of HCC					0.711
HCV	105	81	18	75
HBV	25	19	6	25
Cause of death of HCC patients					0.217
Cancer	59	45	8	33
Liver failure	41	32	12	50
GI or variceal bleeding	30	23	4	17

¹Specialty A (Tropical medicine, Internal medicine, Gastroenterology);

²Specialty B (General practitioner, Radiology, General surgery).

^aP < 0.05 considered statistically significant. HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus.