Research Article
[Retracted] Risk Factors for Brain Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Table 3
Univariate analysis of cancer-related risk factors for HCC brain metastases.
| Variables | Non-BMS, n (%) | BMS, n (%) | p value |
| Tumor size | 0.070 | ≤3 cm | 8681 (99.8) | 16 (0.2) | >3 and ≤5 cm | 6549 (99.8) | 11 (0.2) | >5 cm | 11041 (99.7) | 35 (0.3) | AFP | 0.090 | Positive | 21355 (99.7) | 72 (0.3) | Negative | 7593 (99.8) | 16 (0.2) | Others | 7023 (99.6) | 32 (0.4) | Vascular invasion | 0.348 | Yes | 5356 (99.8) | 10 (0.2) | No | 16984 (99.7) | 45 (0.3) | Unknown | 13631 (99.5) | 65 (0.5) | Fibrosis degree | 0.939 | F0 | 1758 (99.7) | 5 (0.3) | F1 | 8765 (99.7) | 24 (0.3) | Unknown | 25448 (99.6) | 91 (0.4) | N stage | 0.035 | N0 | 26101 (99.8) | 66 (0.0) | N1 | 2212 (99.5) | 11 (0.5) | Unknown | 7658 (99.4) | 43 (0.6) | Differentiated degree | 0.020 | High differentiation | 3432(99.8) | 6 (0.2) | Moderately differentiated | 5419 (99.7) | 18 (0.3) | Low differentiated | 2531 (99.4) | 15 (0.6) | Undifferentiation | 215 (99.1) | 2 (0.9) | Unknown | 24374 (99.7) | 79 (0.3) | Radiotherapy | <0.001 | Yes | 402 (97.8) | 9 (2.2) | No | 35569 (99.7) | 111 (0.3) | Chemotherapy | <0.001 | Yes | 15282 (99.8) | 29 (0.2) | No | 20689 (99.6) | 91 (0.4) | Surgery | <0.001 | Yes | 8344 (99.9) | 5 (0.1) | No | 27223 (99.6) | 115 (0.4) | Unknown | 404 (100) | 0 |
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