Background Recent epidemiological surveys estimated that the global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is around 25%, with an expected increase to 33.5% by 2030 (1, 2). NAFLD is…

1 Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic strongly impacted the outlook of global economic activity, financial market, society’s sentiments, and consumer and business confidence indicators (Teresiene et al., 2021a). The COVID-19 pandemic…

1 Introduction Global cancer statistics in 2020 showed that digestive system cancers, such as colorectal cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma, usually have a high…

Introduction Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is ranked as the sixth most common neoplasm throughout the world (https://gco.iarc.fr/). Despite progress being made in the management of HCC, clinical outcomes remain poor (1)…