Clinical parameters, including patients’ gender, age, HBV or HCV carrier, cirrhosis, alcoholic liver disease, degree of vascular invasion, capsule invasion, acites formation, histology grading, tumor size, alpha-fetoprotein, albumin, bilirubin, prothrombim time, creatinine, and AST/ALT for the recruited HCC cohort were summarized in table 1. This evidence concerns the gene AFP and hepatocellular carcinoma.