Table 1.
The sensitivity/specificity of each tumor marker for hepatocellular carcinoma and a statistic evaluation of hTERTmRNA level to clinical parameter were shown.
| clinical parameter | average ± S.E. | Pearson test P value |
Multivariate analysis P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| tumor size (mm) | 21.2 ± 0.1 | 0.033 | <0.001 |
| (range: 6-90) | |||
| tumor number | 1.8 ± 0.1 | 0.003 | N.S. |
| tumor differentiation | N.S. | <0.001 | |
| AFP (ng/ml) | 6146 ± 4554 | N.S. | N.S. |
| (n = 353) | |||
| AFP-L3 (%) | 6.7 ± 1.0 | N.S. | N.S. |
| (n = 213) | |||
| DCP (mAU/ml) | 18780 ± 1044 | 0.03 | N.S. |
| n = 346) | |||