Relationship between therapeutic efficacy of arterial infusion chemotherapy and expression of P-glycoprotein and p53 protein in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 1 Patient characteristics

		Anthracycline group	Non-anthracycline group
Age (yr)	Mean	60.5 ± 7.2	62.1 ± 8.8
Gender1	Male	18	19
	Female	2	2
Tumor stage12	III	1	1
	IV	19	20
Child’s class1	A	12	11
	B	6	9
	C	2	1
Hepatitis virus1	B( - ) C( + )	15	14
	B( + ) C( + )	3	5
	B( + ) C( - )	0	1
	B( - ) C( - )	2	1
Chemotherapy13	( - )	13	13
	( + )	7	8
HCC differentiation1	Well	1	2
	Moderately	14	15
	Poorly	5	4

Not significant (Mann-Whitney U-test).

¹Number of patients.

²According to the criteria for tumor stage according to TNM classification (UICC).

³Chemoembolization with epirubicin hydrochloride.