As the change of concept of health,the aim of medicine is not only to prolong life and improve the function of organs,but also to help patients to integrate to social life.Previous studies always pay much attention to clinical outcomes ineluding mortality,morbidity,long-term or short-term survival,but patients with liver cancer usually have long disease history and with background diseases such as liver cirrhosis.Traditional liver transplantation and liver resection ale both effective modalities for liver cancer,but liver resection has disadvantages of hish recurrence rate and repeated hepatic artery interventional therapy,and liver transplantation is high-cost.So the health economics and life quality of patients should not be ignored when comparing liver transplantation and liver resection.