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  • Title: [Analysis of prognostic factors in patients with hepatocellular cancer treated by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy].
    Author: Izumi R, Shimizu K, Yabushita K, Watanabe T, Horichi H, Kitabayashi K, Tani T, Urade M, Iyobe T, Segawa M.
    Journal: Gan To Kagaku Ryoho; 1989 Aug; 16(8 Pt 2):2965-8. PubMed ID: 2551236.
    Abstract:
    Analyses of the prognoses of thirty-four patients with hepatocellular cancer, who were treated by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy and/or transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) and/or hyperthermotherapy, were performed by multivariate analysis using Cox's proportional hazard model and generalized Wilcoxon test. In the multivariate analysis on the conditions of patients, nine of fifteen variables were associated with the prognosis of patients who received regional cancer chemotherapy. The variables are: sex, liver cirrhosis, esophageal varices, GOT, GPT, albumin and gamma-globulin. One of three variables was associated with the prognosis in the therapy analysis, and the variable is TAE. Significant differences in survival curves which were estimated by generalized Wilcoxon test were noted in age, portal vein invasion, ascites, GOT and TAE. From these results it is suggested that the conditions of patients with unresectable hepatocellular cancer must be carefully investigated before regional cancer chemotherapy and the good therapy effects is obtained by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with transcatheter arterial embolization therapy.
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