Postoperative adjuvant arterial chemoembolization improves survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients with risk factors for residual tumor: A retrospective control study

Table 1 Clinical and pathological characteristics in control and adjuvant TACE groups patients without risk factors for residual tumor

Characteristics	Control	Adjuvant TACE	P value
	(n = 174)	group (n = 77)
Gender
Female	34	5	0.009
Male	140	72
Age (mean ± SD)	50.86 ± 11.61	49.35 ± 10.04	0.323
HBsAg
Positive	43	11	0.135
Negative	131	66
Cirrhosis
Absent	22	6	0.130
Mild	53	33
Severe	99	38
Child-pugh Class
A	165	77	0.134
B	5	0
AFP (mean ± SD, ug/L)	333.91 ± 529.92	406.04 ± 735.16	0.381
TNM classification
I	28	19	0.108
II	146	58

Table 2 Clinical and pathological characteristics in control and adjuvant TACE groups patients with risk factors for re-sidual tumor

Characteristics	Control	Adjuvant TACE group	P value
	(n = 190)	(n = 108)
Gender
Female	33	12	0.147
Male	157	96
Age (mean ± SD)	51.50 ± 11.72	49.63 ± 10.07	0.105
HBsAg
Positive	47	27	0.588
Negative	143	81
Cirrhosis
Absent	41	24	0.563
Mild	69	45
Severe	80	39
Child-pugh Class
A	187	106	0.860
B	3	2
AFP (mean ± SD, μg/L)	501.39 ± 807.14	518.25 ± 707.99	0.856
TNM classification
II	113	66	0.926
IIIA	55	31
IVA	22	11

Table 3 Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis to evaluate independent variables in patients without risk fac-tors for residual tumor

Variables	B	Wald	Significance	HR	95%CI lower upper
Cirrhosis	0.689	14.443	0.000	1.991	1.396	2.841
Absent = 1
Mild = 2
Severe = 3
Tumor	0.235	6.019	0.014	1.264	1.048	1.525
diameter (cm)

Table 4 Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis to evaluate independent variables in patients with risk factors for residual tumor

Variables	B	Wald	Significance	HR	95% lower upper
AFP (μg/L)	0.212	5.333	0.021	1.236	1.033	1.480
< 20 = 1
21-400 = 2
> 400 = 3
Adjuvant TACE	-0.406	6.041	0.014	0.666	0.482	0.921
Without = 1
With = 2
Tumor diameter (cm)	0.076	16.327	0.000	1.079	1.040	1.119
Vascular invasion	0.245	7.691	0.006	1.278	1.075	1.520
Absent = 1
Present = 2