[Combined hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with transcatheter arterial embolization and hyperthermia in primary liver cancer].

Intrahepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAI) was performed for 20 hepatocellular cancer (HCC) patients and 7 cholangiocellular cancer (CC) patients. HAI combined transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) and/or hyperthermia were performed for 10 HCC and 3 CC patients. The effective responses were shown in 6 HCC and 1 CC patients who were treated with HAI-TAE-hyperthermia combination therapy, and 2 CC patients who were treated with HAI-hyperthermia combination therapy. The 1 and 2-year cumulative survival rate was 100% and 33.3%, respectively, for HCC patients treated with HAI-TAE-hyperthermia therapy. The 1 and 2-year survival rate for HCC patients treated with HAI therapy was 19.5%, and 7.3%, respectively. Generalized Wilcoxon test revealed that the survival was favorable for patients treated with HAI-TAE-hyperthermia therapy as compared with patients given with HAI therapy. Almost the same results were obtained in CC patients. These results suggest that the HAI-TAE-hyperthermia combination therapy was favorable for the treatment of advanced liver cancer.