About The Study: In this study, women with hepatocellular carcinoma were less likely to receive a deceased-donor liver transplant and more likely to die while wait-listed than men with hepatocellular carcinoma; these differences were largely (but not entirely) explained by sex-based differences in candidate size. For candidates listed with exception scores, additional changes to allocation policy are needed to resolve the sex disparity, including solutions to improve access to size-matched donor livers for smaller candidates.
Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Heidi Yeh, MD, email hyeh@mgh.harvard.edu .
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(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3498)
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