Table 3.
Child-Pugh score before and after carbon ion radiation therapy
| Score before CIRT | Score after CIRT |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acute phase (n = 57) |
Late phase (n = 55)∗ |
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| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ≧9 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ≧9 | |
| 5 (n = 43) | 38 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 (n = 8) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 (n = 5) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Abbreviation: CIRT = carbon ion radiation therapy.
∗
Two patients who developed multiple recurrence in the liver and underwent transcatheter arterial chemoembolization at 3 months after carbon ion radiation therapy were excluded from late phase evaluation.