Improving Outcomes with Surgical Resection and Other Ablative Therapies in HCC

Table 4

Results for RFA for HCC.

Author	Year	Number of patients	Inclusion criteria if any	3-year survival (%)	5-year survival (%)
Chen et al. [58]	2006	71	Solitary <5 cm	71	68^a
Livraghi et al. [59]	2008	218	Solitary <2 cm	76	55^b
N’Kontchou et al. [60]	2009	222	Up to 3 HCC <5 cm		40^c
Peng et al. [62]	2010	224	Solitary <5 cm		60
Huang et al. [63]	2010	115	Milan	70	55

^a4-year survival.
^bSurvival increased to 69% for “operable” patients.
^cSurvival increased to 76% for “operable” patients.