The previous study [22], [23] suggested that intratumoral PD-L1 was closely associated with the recurrence or metastasis of HCC after surgery, and we compared the circulating PD-1/PD-L1 expression before and after tumor recurrence in 11 HCC patients received cryoablation.The result showed that PD-1/PD-L1 expression was elevated after tumor recurrence. This evidence concerns the gene PDCD1 and hepatocellular carcinoma.