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Combined therapy of operation and radiation was carried out in 22patients with primary liver cancer in our hospital.All the patients weremales

ranging from 15-69 yr of age with an average of 44.5 yr.His-tological diagnosis was hepatocellular carcinoma in 21 cases andcholangioearcinoma 1 case.17（77.3％）patients were associated withliver cirrhosis

and 19（86.4％）patients had positive AFP bycounterimmunoelectrophoretic method.Clinically

6 patients were in stageⅠ

11 in stage Ⅱ and 5 in stage Ⅲ.Liver resection was performed on 17patients（5 local resections

5 right hemihepateetomies

2 left laterallobectomies

2 left hemihepatectomies

2 total right hepatectomies

and1 left medial Iobectomy）and palliative operation on the other 5 patients（4 hepatic artery ligations or operative embolizations and 1 hepaticartery infusion）.For radiotherapy either local or perative whole-liverradiation with

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Co was applied.Up to May 1983

19 patients who had been followed up had survivedfor more than 6 months.The survival rates at 1

2

3

4 years aftertreatment were 78.9％

66.7％

64.3％ and 44.4％ respectively with amedian survival duration of 36 months.Data have shown that the encou-raging results of this method are better than those of only liverresection or only radiotherapy at present.