Table 1.
General state of health of 42 patients with bone metastasis from HCC
| Sex | male | 33 |
| female | 9 | |
| Age | average 53 (range: 17–75) | |
| KPS | > 80 | 20 |
| 50–80 | 17 | |
| < 50 | 5 | |
| Hepatitis B infection | yes | 30 |
| no | 12 | |
| Pathological diagnosis | yes | 29 |
| no | 13 | |
| History of HCC treatment | yes | 39 |
| no | 4 | |
| Therapy | liver transplantation | 16 |
| hepatic segmentectomy | 10 | |
| TACE | 16 | |
| radio frequency | 5 | |
| full-body chemotherapy | 2 | |
| administration of sorafenib | 3 | |
| Liver lesion control | controlled | 14 |
| uncontrolled | 28 | |
| Metastases in other organs | lung | 12 |
| abdominal lymph nodes | 6 | |
| brain | 3 | |
| adrenal gland | 2 | |
| kidney | 1 | |
| Discovery of bone metastasis | during treatment | 36 |
| In first visit | 6 |