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Table 1 Patients characteristics and main results.

From: Trans-arterial chemo-embolization (TACE), with either lipiodol (traditional TACE) or drug-eluting microspheres (precision TACE, pTACE) in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: efficacy and safety results from a large mono-institutional analysis

Patients

General series

TACE exclusive

TACE non exclusive

TACE exclusive lipiodol

TACE exclusive microspheres

 

n = 150

n = 82

n = 68

n = 50

n = 32

Median Age (range)

69 (40-89)

72 (41-89)

66 (40-84)

74 (42-89)

68 (41-79)

OS months (range)

32 (3-124)

30 (3-91)

32 (3-124)

46 (3-87)

14 (3-91)

TTP months (range)

24 (1-64)

26 (1-64)

24 (1-52)

32 (1-64)

13 (1-28)

Gender (%)

     

male

122 (81)

65 (79)

57 (84)

36 (79)

29 (91)

female

28 (19)

17 (21)

11 (16)

14 (21)

3 (9)

Patients undergoing TACE (%)

     

TACE exclusive

82 (55)

    

TACE non exclusive

68 (45)

    

Type of TACE (%)

     

TACE

87 (58)

50 (61)

37 (54)

  

pTACE

63 (42)

32 (39)

31 (46)

  

OS months (Type of TACE) (range)

     

TACE

46 (3-124)

    

pTACE

19 (3-91)

    

TTP months (Type of TACE) (range)

     

TACE

30 (1-64)

    

pTACE

16 (1-38)