Time to surgery is not an oncological risk factor in HCC patients undergoing liver resection.

"Declarations All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was conducted at the UH-RWTH in accordance with the requirements of the Institutional Review Board of the RWTH-Aachen University (EK 22-342). Conflict of interestThe authors declare no competing interests. Conflict of interest The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Guanwu Wang was funded by China Scholarship Council (Grant number: 202108430018). This project was supported by the German Research Foundation (SFB-CRC 1382-A01)."