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A B

Figure 2. Age-standardised and overall 5-year relative survival rates of primary liver cancer in some selected countries during 1974-
2016. A: Age-standardised 5-year relative survival rates (a: Europe *[17,19,35,36] ; b: other regions [27,28,30,31] ); B: overall 5-year relative
survival rates (a: Europe [14,16,19,21,22,33-35] ; b: Asia [6-12,25,26] ; c: North America [11,12,14,15,29-32] ; d: Africa [37,38] ). *The divisions of Europe refer to the
EUROCARE report

Liver cancer survival in China
Table 3 shows the details of the population-based overall and age-standardized 5-year RSRs of PLC in some
[39]
[45]
[46]
areas in China. It mainly includes the survival of PLC in the nation , Beijing , Shanghai , Zhejiang
[28]
[41]
[28]
[47]
[48]
Province , Liaoning Province , Taiwan , Hong Kong , Haining and Jiashan (Zhejiang Province) ,
[51]
Cixian (Hebei Province) [49,50] , Huaian (Jiangsu Province) , Qidong (Jiangsu Province) [40,52] , and Jintan
[53]
district (Changzhou, Jiangsu Province) . Among them, cases of DCO were explicitly excluded in the
reports of Shanghai , Qidong of Jiangsu , Haining, and Jiashan of Zhejiang , and Liaoning .
[48]
[40]
[39]
[28]
As shown in Table 3, the 5-year RSRs of PLC improved gradually over time. The age-standardized 5-year
RSRs of liver cancer patients in China (2003-2015) are lower than that of Korea and Japan for a similar time
period. For the overall 5-year RSRs, gender difference was not found in our review as the survival rates of
liver cancer in women were not consistently higher than that in men. The highest overall 5-year RSR of