Adjuvant Iodine¹³¹ Lipiodol after Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 2

Treatment details.

	Surgery only	Surgery + I^131-lipiodol	Significance ( value)
Dose of I^131 lipiodol (GBq)	—	1.8
Liver resection,			0.56
Major	22	21
Minor	30	37
Deaths,	25	20	0.16
Recurrences,	34	38
Intrahepatic	29	33	1.0
Lung	3	3	1.0
Bone	2	1	0.60
Other	0	1	1.0
Treatment of recurrence,
Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)	12	12	0.81
Repeat liver resection	4	13	0.038
Salvage liver transplant	4	4	1.0
Ablation	9	9	0.79
DC bead TACE	2	3	1.0
Percutaneous ethanol	6	3	0.29
Palliative I^131 lipiodol	1	2	1.0
External beam radiotherapy	0	3	0.24
Sorafenib	3	1	0.005
Systemic chemotherapy	3	0
Sandostatin	2	0
Temozolomide	1	0