HCC Surveillance: Comparison of Abbreviated Non-contrast MRI and Ultrasound Surveillance in Cirrhotic Patients With Suboptimal Ultrasound Visualisation

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Clinical Trial

Official title: HCC Surveillance: Comparison of Abbreviated Non-contrast MRI and Ultrasound Surveillance in Cirrhotic Patients With Suboptimal Ultrasound Visualisation

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

All international guidelines recommend 6-monthly ultrasound surveillance for patients at risk for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma or HCC), such as patients with cirrhosis. The aim of surveillance is to detect HCC at an early stage when it is still potentially curable. Currently only 4 out of 10 HCCs are detected at the early stage.

Ultrasound surveillance for HCC has a wide ranging sensitivity, dependent on many factors such as operator experience, patient body habitus and liver parenchymal heterogeneity due to chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. In a select group of patients, surveillance ultrasound can be suboptimal or near non-diagnostic.

Currently no guideline offers an alternative surveillance tool for patients who have suboptimal surveillance ultrasounds.

Clinical Trial Description

The investigators plan to conduct a prospective study to examine the diagnostic performance of abbreviated non-contrast MRI (aNC-MRI) versus ultrasound, in a select group of cirrhotic patients with poor ultrasound visualisation. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
• HCC
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma

• NCT number: NCT04455932
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Concord Repatriation General Hospital
• Contact: Jessica Yang, MBBS
• Phone: +61297676495
• Email: jessica.yang1@health.nsw.gov.au
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2022
• Completion date: March 2027