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Liver Cancer Therapy

Right inferior phrenic artery inflow can impair HAIC distribution

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 24th, 2005

Right inferior phrenic artery inflow can impair distribution of hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) in liver cancer patients.

For maximal therapeutic efficacy of repeated HAIC "for unresectable advanced liver malignancies, distribution of anticancer drugs via an indwelling catheter should be uniform throughout the entire liver," radiologists in Japan explained.

In their study, T. Yamagami and coauthors at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine "investigated how an extrahepatic artery entering the posterior segment or caudate lobe of the liver influences performance of repeated HAIC."

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