Introduction:
In the absence of national guidelines or accepted standards for down-staging of hepatocellular carcinoma (conversion of a patient with HCC who is not a candidate for curative transplant to one who is using loco-regional therapy), we would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey.
We seek your help in characterizing current patterns of clinical practice and more importantly your own attitudes towards down-staging. We hope this survey will inform the ongoing debate about how to approach down-staging.
The survey should take 5 minutes to complete and all answers will be anonymous.
Please answer the following questions to the best of your knowledge.