Table 1.

The number of HCC patients stratified by TR/BSSP4/VEGF RNA expression levels

Target expression	TR	BSSP4	VEGF
Low	6	18	7
Median	11	8	13
High	35	26	32

The expression levels (T/N) of TR, BSSP4 and VEGF were determined by QRT-PCR in HCC mRNA level (52 cases).