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Hepatic irradiation in primary and metastatic liver cancer.

Between December 1973 and September 1987, 21 patients with primary liver cancer and 41 patients with metastatic liver cancer were treated with external irradiation, intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy and/or transarterial embolization (TAE) at the National Medical Center Hospital, the National South Kyushu Central Hospital and the National Kure Hospital. Of the patients with primary liver cancer, 13 cases were treated with intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy (30-40 mg adriamycin or 10 mg mitomycin C) and hepatic irradiation. Eight cases were treated by TAE and hepatic irradiation. In the Child A group, the survival period of the chemotherapy + hepatic irradiation cases (mean: 608 days) was longer than that of the TAE + hepatic irradiation cases (mean: 216 days). The median survival period of all the cases was 7.0 months (mean: 10.9 months). For 16 of the 21 patients (who had absorbed over 40 Gy), the median survival period was 11.9 months (mean: 11.7 months). For 5 of the 21 patients (who had absorbed below 40 Gy), the median survival period was 4.3 months (mean: 7.9 months). Of the patients with metastatic liver cancer, the median survival period was 7.2 months (mean: 8.0 months). For 22 of the 41 patients (who had absorbed over 40 Gy), the median survival was 7.9 months (mean: 12.6 months). For 19 of the 41 patients (who had absorbed below 40 Gy), the median survival period was 1.7 months (mean: 2.6 months). The pretreatment serum GOT (glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase) levels and the pretreatment Karnofsky performance status index were the factors governing the prognosis of the cases with metastatic liver cancer, while toxicity was generally mild.[1]

References

  1. Hepatic irradiation in primary and metastatic liver cancer. Hatano, K., Mikuriya, S., Oda, T., Makino, M., Hada, Y. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. (1989) [Pubmed]
 
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