Combined Therapy of Operation and Radiation in Primary Liver Cancer

Combined therapy of operation and radiation was carried out in 22patients with primary liver cancer in our hospital.All the patients weremales,ranging from 15-69 yr of age with an average of 44.5 yr.His-tological diagnosis was hepatocellular carcinoma in 21 cases andcholangioearcinoma 1 case.17(77.3％)patients were associated withliver cirrhosis,and 19(86.4％)patients had positive AFP bycounterimmunoelectrophoretic method.Clinically,6 patients were in stageⅠ,11 in stage Ⅱ and 5 in stage Ⅲ.Liver resection was performed on 17patients(5 local resections,5 right hemihepateetomies,2 left laterallobectomies,2 left hemihepatectomies,2 total right hepatectomies,and1 left medial Iobectomy)and palliative operation on the other 5 patients(4 hepatic artery ligations or operative embolizations and 1 hepaticartery infusion).For radiotherapy either local or perative whole-liverradiation with ~(60)Co was applied.Up to May 1983,19 patients who had been followed up had survivedfor more than 6 months.The survival rates at 1,2,3,4 years aftertreatment were 78.9％,66.7％,64.3％ and 44.4％ respectively with amedian survival duration of 36 months.Data have shown that the encou-raging results of this method are better than those of only liverresection or only radiotherapy at present.

Combined Therapy of Operation and Radiation in Primary Liver Cancer