Treatment of Moderate Advanced Liver Cancer by Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization and Percutaneous Absolute Ethanol Injection / 中国医师杂志

Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TOCE) and percutaneous absolute ethanol injection (APEI) in moderate or advanced liver cancer.Method During May,1993～Aug,1999, 137 patients with unresectable advanced liver cancer were retrospectively studied. 85 cases only received TOCE, 52 cases were treated by TOCE+APEI by B-US guidance.Results The effect in TOCE+APEI group was significant better than that in only TOCE group,the half year, 1-year,2-year and 3-year survival rates of the TOCE+APEI group were 86 54%,67 31%,43 55% and 21 77%,while those of the TOCE group were 65 89%,47 92%,22 12% and 1 48% respectively. There was significant difference between the two groups in survival rate(P