Table 1.
Patients and tumor characteristics
| Characteristics | ||
| n | 60 | |
| Gender | ||
| male | 54 | |
| female | 6 | |
| Mean age | ||
| years (standard deviation) | 64.8 (10.7) | |
| Underlying disease | ||
| alcohol | 16 | |
| HBV | 11 | |
| HCV | 12 | |
| steatosis or NASH | 5 | |
| others | 11 | |
| unknown | 5 | |
| Prior HCC treatment | ||
| yes | 35 | |
| no | 25 | |
| Tumor grading | ||
| G1 | 13 | |
| G2 | 34 | |
| G3 | 8 | |
| unknown | 5 | |
| Tumor burden | ||
| MVI | absent | 31 |
| present | 29 | |
| EHS | absent | 17 |
| present | 43 | |
| MVI and/or EHS | absent | 6 |
| present | 54 | |
| BCLC classification | ||
| A | 1 | |
| B | 1 | |
| C | 50 | |
| D | 6 | |
| unknown | 2 | |
| ECOG PS | ||
| 0 | 11 | |
| 1 | 39 | |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 3 | 2 | |
| unknown | 3 | |
| Child-Pugh | ||
| A | 14 | |
| B | 24 | |
| C | 4 | |
| unknown | 18 | |
| Ascites | ||
| absent | 23 | |
| present | 19 | |
| unknown | 18 | |
| Baseline AFP (ng/ml) | ||
| ≤20 | 22 | |
| >20 | 36 | |
| unknown | 2 | |