COMBINED OPERATION AND IRRADIATION THERAPY FOR PRIMARY LIVER CANCER
- VernacularTitle:手术加放疗在原发性肝癌综合治疗中的应用
- Author:
Xiaohua ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University
1982;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Combined operation and irradiation therapy has been performed on 22 patients with primary liver cancer in our hospital.All these patients were mal s.Age ranged from 15-49 years old with an average of 44.5. Histological dingnoais were. hepatocellular carcinoma in 21 cases and cholangiocarcinoma in 1 case. Seventeen (77.3%) patients were associated with liver cirrhosis, nineteen(86.4%)patients had positive AFP by counter- immunoelectrophoretic method.Clinically, 6 patients were stage I, 11 patients were stage II and 5 patients were stage III. The operative procedures consisted of liver resection in 17 patients (local resection 5, right hemihepatectomy 5, left lateral lobectomy 2, left hemihepatectomy 2, total right hepatectomy 2,and left medial lobectomy 1)and palliative operation in other 5 patients (hepatic artery ligation or embolization in 4 patients and hepatic artery infusion in 1 patient) .Radiotherapy comprised local or whole-liver irradiation with 60Co.Up to May 1983, 19 patients were followed-up, all of them survived more than 6 months.The 1, 2, 3, 4 year survival rates after treatment were 78.9%, 66.7%, 64.3% and 44.4% respectively with a median survival duration of 36 months.Data showed that the encouraging results of this method which were better than liver resection and radiotherapy or any other cmbined methods at present.
