Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.; Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess disease burden and cost of illness of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Portugal, assuming full adherence to the treatment algorithm associated to the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) system. Methods: An individuallevel, continuous-time, state-transition model was used to simulate th...
Funding Information: The work was supported by NORTE-01–0145-FEDER-000029, Norte Portugal Regional Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund and national funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology POCI-01–0145-FEDER-32189. Programa Operacional Regional do Norte and co-financed by European Regional Development Fund under the...