Objective:To investigate the feasibility and significance of the re-operation for patients with recurrent primary liver cancer.
Methods :The clinical data of 58 patients with post-operative recurrence after initial operation for primary liver cancer in our hospital from January 2003 to December 2008 were analyzed. They were divided into re-operation group and the other treatment group, and the 1-and 3-year survival rates were compared.
Results:The 23 cases of re-operation group were all treated by local radical resection plus hepatic arterial chemotherapy pump implantation, and postoperative chemotherapy was given via hepatic artery chemoembolization pump line.The 35 patients of the other treatment group underwent radiofrequency ablation plus transcatheter hepatic arterial chemoembolization via femoral artery.The 1-and 3-year survival rates in re-operation group was 100% and 82.6% respectively, which was significantly higher than that of the other treatment group (82.9% and 45.7% respectively).
Conclusions:Re-operation is the treatment of choice for patients with tumor recrrrencr after radical resection of primary liver cancer, provided that the conditions are suitable and the timing of operation is appropriate.