Table I.
Clinical information of the 57 patients with liver and biliary cancer.
| Characteristics | Category | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Sex | M | 50 |
| F | 7 | |
| Age at diagnosis, mean years ± SD | 52.1±10.6 | |
| BMI index | <18.5 | 2 |
| 18.5–23.9 | 24 | |
| >23.9 | 31 | |
| Smoking | Yes | 21 |
| Occasionally | 3 | |
| No | 31 | |
| N/A | 2 | |
| Alcohol | Yes | 15 |
| Occasionally | 5 | |
| No | 35 | |
| N/A | 2 | |
| HBV | Yes | 42 |
| No | 15 | |
| Alcoholic hepatitis | Yes | 5 |
| No | 52 | |
| Fatty liver | Yes | 3 |
| No | 53 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Cirrhosis and liver fibrosis | Yes | 41 |
| No | 15 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Family cancer history | Yes | 27 |
| No | 30 | |
| Hepatectomy surgery | Yes | 51 |
| No | 3 | |
| N/A | 3 | |
| ECOG score | 0 | 52 |
| 1 | 4 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Metastases | Yes | 6 |
| No | 50 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Degree of differentiation | Undifferentiated | 0 |
| Low | 5 | |
| Middle | 49 | |
| High | 0 | |
| N/A | 3 | |
| Largest diameter of the | <2 | 4 |
| tumor, cm | 2–5 | 22 |
| 5–10 | 18 | |
| ≥10 | 9 | |
| NA | 4 | |
| Albumin, g/l | <35 | 6 |
| 35–50 | 49 | |
| >50 | 1 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Bilirubin, mg/l | 1–10 | 20 |
| >10 | 36 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Platelet | <100 | 9 |
| 100–300 | 43 | |
| >300 | 4 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| AFP (ng/ml) | <25 | 34 |
| 25–500 | 11 | |
| >500 | 11 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| ALT | 0–40 | 36 |
| >40 | 19 | |
| N/A | 2 | |
| Child-Pugh classification | 0/A | 52 |
| B/C/D | 1 | |
| N/A | 4 | |
| BCLC | 0/A | 12 |
| B | 23 | |
| C | 16 | |
| N/A | 6 | |
| Stage | I | 2 |
| II | 28 | |
| III | 17 | |
| IV | 7 | |
| N/A | 3 | |
| Lesion | Primary | 52 |
| Secondary | 2 | |
| N/A | 3 | |
| Nodules | Single | 42 |
| Multiple | 14 | |
| N/A | 1 | |
| Number of tumors | 1 | 42 |
| >1 | 7 | |
| N/A | 8 | |
| Microvascular invasion (tumor thrombus) | Yes | 44 |
| No | 9 | |
| N/A | 4 | |
| Large vascular invasion (tumor thrombus) | Yes | 4 |
| No | 49 | |
| N/A | 4 | |
| Portal vein invasion (tumor thrombus) | Yes | 9 |
| No | 44 | |
| N/A | 4 | |
| Peripheral nerve invasion | Yes | 4 |
| No | 49 | |
| N/A | 4 |
SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index; HBV, hepatitis B virus; AFP, α-fetoprotein; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; NA, not available.