Table 2.

Demographic Summary of TLCN HCC cohort

Variable	HCV (n = 40)	NBNC (n = 32)
Age	66.3 ± 8.4 (59.3–72.0)	66.0 ± 14.9 (61.0–76.0)
Gender	Male:32, Female:8	Male:22, Female:10
Presence of cirrhosis	45.0%	21.9%
Tumor size (cm)	4.5 ± 2.3 (3.0–5.9)	8.0 ± 5.1 (3.5–11.8)
Positive frequencya	(Tumor, Non-Tumor)	(Tumor, Non-Tumor)
IL-17A	80.0%, 75.0%	87.5%, 87.5%
IL-17F	47.5%, 15.0%	40.6%, 18.8%

^aSpecific cytokine gene expression was detected by quantitative RT-PCR