Liver resection is a major surgical treatment, and how long you can live after the surgery depends mainly on what disease this surgical treatment is performed for. Generally speaking, malignant diseases such as liver cancer, which are in the early stage of the disease are likely to undergo this surgery, and the general survival rate may be longer, with a 5-year survival rate of about half. If liver resection is performed due to benign disease, long-term survival is possible after surgery. Survival after surgery also depends on whether the perioperative period can be safely navigated. This is a more surgical treatment, so short-term complications after surgery can be more frequent and dangerous. With the improvement of medical technology, the perioperative mortality rate has now seen a relatively large decline and most patients can safely survive the recovery period of surgery. Due to hepatectomy performed for malignant tumors, although detected relatively early, a large number of people will experience recurrence of malignant tumors after surgery to the point that more than half of them die within 5 years. Of course, long-term survival is possible in many cases if comprehensive treatment with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and interventional therapy is performed after hepatectomy so that the chance of recurrence is minimized. Hepatectomy due to benign diseases of the liver is generally performed mainly on focal segments of the liver. The liver has a strong compensatory function and the liver tissue can be regenerated. Therefore, these diseases can survive for a long time after hepatectomy is performed. The question of how long you can live after hepatectomy is a more complex one. It mainly depends on what kind of surgical treatment is performed and whether the recovery is smooth after surgery, etc. can determine the survival time.