Hepatocellular carcinoma in the elderly: Meta-analysis and systematic literature review

Table 7 Preoperative data of patients undergoing transarterial chemoembolization

Author	Year	Country	Design	Tx	Age cut off	Young, n	Elderly, n	Sex: male/female (P = 0.272)		Child Pugh A/B/C		Tumor size (cm) (P = 0.953)
								Young	Elderly	Young	Elderly	Young	Elderly
Yau et al[27]	2009	China	Prospective	TACE	70	317	67	272/45	54/13	262/55	52/15	8.70	8.50
Yau et al[27]	2009	China	Prospective	TACE	70	843	197	715/128	143/54	674/159/10	165/32	NA	NA
Mirici-Cappa et al[13]	2010	Italy	Retrospective	TACE	70	396	158	301/95	117/41	234/135/21	113/40/3	3.89	3.86
Liu et al[20]	2014	Taiwan	Prospective	TACE	75	604	271	446/158	222/49	72/22/3	86/14	NA	NA
Nishikawa et al[28]	2014	Japan	Prospective	TACE	75	84	66	63/21	34/32	52/32	53/13	5.10	5.70

TACE: Transarterial chemoembolization; NA: Not available.