[Therapeutic factors related to irradiation in primary and metastatic liver cancer using multivariate analysis]

Between December 1973 and August 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 trans-arterial embolization (TAE) at the National Medical Center Hospital, the National South Kyushu Central Hospital and the National Kure Hospital. They were all inoperable cases. We diagnosed the tumor site and the involved area with many imagings and we decided the target volume. 1. Primary liver cancer: the average survival period was 10.9 months, the 1-year survival rate was 28.6%, the 2-year survival rate was 14.3% and the 3-year survival rate was 4.7%. Using multivariate analysis, stage, cancer reduction rate, Child classification and field size were valuable factors of the prognosis in the arterial infusion group. In the TAE group, cancer reduction rate was the most valuable factor. 2. Metastatic liver cancer: The average survival period was 8.0 months, the 1-year survival rate was 19.5%, the 5-year survival rate was 2.4%. Using multivariate analysis, pre-treatment K.P.S, distant metastasis, H, Child classification were valuable factors and pre-treatment K.P.S. was most valuable factor. Although the indication of hepatic irradiation were generally thought to limit those cases which were Child A or B, H1 or H2 and the cases which have no distant metastasis, the case which have their main portal tumor thrombus were also the indication of this therapy.