Liver Cancer

Minimally invasive treatments effective as surgery for solitary tumors

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, April 19th, 2004

Results of a new study show that combining two minimally invasive interventional radiology treatments for liver cancer is as effective as surgery for treating single tumors up to 7 cm in diameter.

The treatment combines embolization, blocking the blood supply to the tumor, with radiofrequency ablation, killing the tumor with heat. This combination is effective at treating solitary hepatocellular carcinoma lesions affords patients survival benefits on par with surgical resection, but without the trauma.

The minimally invasive interventional treatment targets only the tumor tissue, and spares the healthy tissue. In addition to being equally effective,...

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