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. 2023 Jan 18;10:33. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-01928-3

Table 1.

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Clinical/survival variable Description
Interval_BL Number of Days between HCC diagnosis (either by previous imaging or biopsy) and pre-procedural (baseline) CT
Interval_FU Number of Weeks between follow-up and baseline studies
TTP Number of weeks between the procedure and the first evidence of tumor progression.
Death_1_StillAlive orLostToFU_0 Binary value (0 or 1), “1” denotes patient died at follow-up date, while “0” denotes patient still alive or lost to follow-up
Age Patient age at diagnosis (not at baseline CT)
Pathology Degree of differentiation of HCC according to histopathological assessment
PS_bclc Performance status as component for BCLC classification
CPG Child Pugh grading
Tr_Size Actual pathological tumor size in cm
T_involvment Liver involvement by the tumor, either less than 50% involvement of liver or more.
AFP Alpha fetoprotein level (ng/ml)
CLIP_Score CLIP score
Okuda Okuda score
TNM TNM staging
BCLC Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer classification
Chemotherapy Chemotherapy regimen used for TACE procedure, either DEB-TACE or conventional TACE.

Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; CT, computed tomography; BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; AFP, alpha feto-protein; TACE, transarterial chemo-embolization; DEB-TACE, drug-eluting beads TACE.