Improving Outcomes with Surgical Resection and Other Ablative Therapies in HCC

Table 3

Improving results of liver resection for HCC.

Author	Year	Number of patients	Inclusion criteria if any	3-year survival (%)	5-year survival (%)
Iwatsuki and Starzl [35]	1988	55	None		25
Poon et al. [36]	2001	136^a; 241^b	None	47; 62	36; 49
Shi et al. [46]	2007	169	Solitary HCC^c	79	61
Ishii et al. [38]	2008	162	Milan	89	70
Yamakado et al. [40]	2008	62	Milan	93	81
Canter et al. [41]	2010	94	Exceeding; Milan	66
Huang et al. [63]	2010	115	Milan	92	76
Hung et al. [39]	2011	229	Milan		79.3

^aResections performed between 1989 and 1994.
^bResections performed between 1994 and 1999.
^cMajority within Milan criteria.