Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Patient no.	Gender	Age (years)	HLA	TNM stages	No. of tumours	Largest tumour (mm)	Child–Pugh	KPS	Post-TAE Rx
1	M	60	A11 A33	III	5	35	B	100	RFA
2	M	57	A11 A24	III	1	21	B	100	RFA
3	M	57	A11 A31	III	2	39	B	100	RFA
4	M	77	A2 A24	III	2	35	A	100	RFA
5	F	83	A11 A24	III	3	29	B	100	RFA
6	F	74	A2 A24	II	1	35	A	100	RFA
7	F	72	A24 A33	III	3	41	B	100	RFA
8	F	65	A2 A11	II	4	12	B	100	RFA
9	M	71	A2 A11	II	4	16	A	100	RFA
10	M	79	A11 A24	III	2	40	A	100	RFA
11	M	71	A2 A24	II	1	28	A	100	RFA
12	M	56	A2 A26	III	2	25	B	100	RFA
13	M	64	A2 A33	III	2	37	B	100	RFA

M, male; F, female; TNM, tumour–node–metastasis; Child–Pugh, Child–Pugh classification; KPS, Karnofsky performance scores; TAE, transcatheter arterial embolization; Rx, treatment; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HLA, human leucocyte antigen; RFA, percutaneous radiofrequency ablation.