The Combination Strategy of Transarterial Chemoembolization and Radiofrequency Ablation or Microwave Ablation against Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 1

Comparison of clinical studies in patients with HCC for radiofrequency ablation or microwave ablation.

References	Methods	Patients	Lesions	Mean age (years)	Size (cm)	Complete ablation rates (%)	Local recurrence rates (%)	Overall survival rates
								1 yr (%)	3 yr (%)	5 yr (%)
Livraghi et al. [28]	RFA	218	—	68	≤2.0	98.1	0.9	—	76	55
Livraghi et al. [30]	RFA	114	126	64.4	5.4 (mean)	47.6	—	—	—	—
Liang et al. [39]	MWA	1007	1363	56.3	1.0-18.5; (mean)	97.1^a	5.9	91.2	72.5	59.8
Dong et al. [40]	MWA	234	339		1.2-8.0; (mean)	92.0 (US)^b	7.3	92.7^c	72.85^c	56.7^c

^aTechnique effectiveness; ^bcolor Doppler flow signals disappeared in 92.0% (263/286) of the lesions; ^ccumulative survival rates.