Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 15 (13), [5155][5156][5157][5158][5159][5160]
IntroductionPrimary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with a climbing incidence year by year, is one of the most common malignant tumors and presents a spreading trend worldwide (Sherman, 2010). Current principal means for the treatment of HCC include surgical treatment (liver resection and liver transplantation), regional treatment (transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and topical therapy (ablation therapy, etc.) (Bruix and Sherman, 2011;Forner et al., 2012;Shi et al., 2013). However, when the patients refer to the hospital, most of them have been at the latest stage and consequently few of them can undergo surgical treatment. Moreover, the recurrence rate of HCC is high. Its 5-year recurrence rate can be up to 80%, while less than 20% of the recurrent HCC can get a re-resection (Bruix and Sherman, 2011). Liver transplantation can be a favorable approach for the treatment of liver cancer in the final stage, but the donors are very scarce and the cost is huge. Ultimately, most of the patients have to receive regional or topical treatment.
I seed implantation (TACE+
125I group). After treatment, the local remission rates and postoperative complications of two groups were compared using the Pearson Chi-square test. Overall survival in the two groups was calculated using Kaplan-Meier survival curves and the differences were tested using Log-rank test. Results: There were 7 cases of complete response (CR), 13 of partial response (PR), 6 of stable disease (SD) and 17 of progressive disease (PD) in the TACE group, with 13 cases of CR, 9 of PR, 5 of SD and 5 of PD in the TACE+ 125