 Performance status has shown to be associated with long-term survival and prognosis in patients with HCC, and it is one of the important factors in the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer BCLC staging system. Recently, the researches on health-related quality of life HRQL of cancer patients have been progressed. The most widely used surveys to assess HRQL of cancer patients are Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Generic FACT-G and European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer EORTC quality of life questionnaire QLQ-C30. Since those two are mainly about cancers in general, HCC specific surveys were developed. 