The relationship between urologic cancer outcomes and national Human Development Index: trend in recent years.

Objectives: To describe the influence of the socioeconomic development on worldwide age-standardized incidence and mortality rates, as well as mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) and 5-year net survival of urologic cancer patients in recent years.

Methods: The Human Development Index (HDI) values were obtained from the United Nations Development Programme, data on age-standardized incidence/mortality rates of prostate, bladder and kidney cancer were retrieved from the GLOBOCAN database, 5-year net survival was provided by the CONCORD-3 program. We then evaluated the association between incidence/MIR/survival and HDI, with a focus on geographic variability as well as temporal patterns during the last 6 years.

Impact of national Human Development Index on liver cancer outcomes: Transition from 2008 to 2018.

Background: Liver cancer is the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Socioeconomic development, indicated by the Human Development Index (HDI), is closely interconnected with public health. But the manner in which social development and medical advances influenced liver cancer patients in the past decade is still unknown.

Combination of transarterial chemoembolization and sorafenib improves outcomes of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The effectiveness of combination therapy of transarterial chemoembolization and sorafenib for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma are controversial in some studies. This meta-analysis aims to compare efficacy and safety, as well as regional disparities, between transarterial chemoembolization plus sorafenib and transarterial chemotherapy alone for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Methods: We systematically searched multiple databases to select eligible studies.