[Treatment of primary liver tumors]

The paper is concerned with the analysis of the results of surgical and drug therapy of 225 cases of primary hepatic tumor treated at the Center clinic within 1957-1981. 86 patients were operated on: radical surgery was performed in 20 cases. Postoperative lethality rate in radical surgery group was 10%, mean survival time-26.7 months. Systemic chemotherapy was given to 111, and regional one-to 12 patients. New schemes of drug treatment (carminomycin + bleomycin; preparations of platinum + other cytostatic drugs) were used in 30 cases. This was followed by a higher effectiveness of treatment and a longer survival, the latter being 9.0 +/- 1.3 months, as compared with 4.0 +/- 0.5 months in controls.