Table II.
Overall survival rate | Disease-free survival rate | |||||||
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Variable | n | 3-year, % | 5-year, % | P-value | 3-year, % | 5-year, % | P-value | |
Gender | 0.891 | 0.895 | ||||||
Female | 18 | 82.4 | 51.0 | 82.4 | 44.9 | |||
Male | 56 | 78.2 | 50.1 | 74.6 | 44.5 | |||
Age, years | 0.644 | 0.732 | ||||||
≤45 | 17 | 81.3 | 68.8 | 75.6 | 56.7 | |||
>45 | 57 | 78.6 | 44.7 | 76.8 | 41.1 | |||
HBsAg status | 0.079 | 0.073 | ||||||
Negative | 6 | 50.0 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 33.3 | |||
Positive | 68 | 81.9 | 52.0 | 78.9 | 45.7 | |||
Cirrhosis | 0.235 | 0.318 | ||||||
No | 12 | 66.7 | 50.0 | 66.7 | 50.0 | |||
Yes | 62 | 81.8 | 50.4 | 78.5 | 43.5 | |||
AFP, µg/l | 0.122 | 0.224 | ||||||
≤400 | 29 | 68.1 | 41.0 | 64.7 | 33.2 | |||
>400 | 45 | 86.4 | 56.3 | 84.1 | 51.8 | |||
Tumor size, cm | 0.764 | 0.778 | ||||||
≤5 | 26 | 60.1 | 47.5 | 60.4 | 47.7 | |||
>5 | 48 | 89.4 | 52.0 | 85.2 | 47.8 | |||
Tumor number | <0.001a | <0.001a | ||||||
Single | 47 | 95.7 | 58.3 | 93.6 | 56.3 | |||
Multiple | 27 | 48.4 | 36.3 | 44.9 | 23.0 | |||
Tumor capsule | 0.739 | 0.715 | ||||||
Complete | 52 | 76.5 | 44.0 | 72.6 | 44.3 | |||
Incomplete | 22 | 85.7 | 66.0 | 85.7 | 45.7 | |||
Vascular infiltration | 0.035a | 0.049a | ||||||
No | 54 | 92.4 | 54.1 | 90.5 | 50.2 | |||
Yes | 20 | 45.0 | 40.0 | 45.0 | 30.0 | |||
Edmondson grade | <0.001a | <0.001a | ||||||
I/II | 48 | 93.7 | 56.4 | 93.7 | 54.5 | |||
III/IV | 26 | 46.3 | 37.9 | 42.6 | 25.6 | |||
TNM Stage | 0.020a | 0.027a | ||||||
I/II | 45 | 93.3 | 54.1 | 91.1 | 47.3 | |||
III/IV | 29 | 48.5 | 40.7 | 45.2 | 32.9 | |||
BCAT1 protein level | 0.004a | 0.004a | ||||||
Low | 37 | 94.6 | 66.8 | 94.6 | 58.5 | |||
High | 37 | 60.3 | 33.2 | 57.7 | 30.5 |
P<0.05. HbsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; BCAT1, branched-chain amino acid transaminase 1; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; AFP, α-fetoprotein.