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2. Selective internal radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells; however, normal cells are also damaged in the process. Currently, therapeutic doses of radiation can be targeted to tumors with great accuracy using linear accelerators in radiation oncology; however, when irradiating using external beam radiotherapy, the beam will always need to travel through healthy tissue, and the normal liver tissue is very ...

3. SIR-Spheres - Wikipedia

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   SIR-Spheres microspheres are used to treat patients with unresectable liver cancer. These are mostly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), or metastatic neuroendocrine tumours (mNET). [1] Therapy goals are local disease control, downstaging to resection, bridging to transplantation, and extended ...

4. Sirtex - Wikipedia

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   Primary liver cancer, also known as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is the most frequent type of liver cancer, accounting for approximately 90% of the primary malignant liver tumours in adults. Liver cancer is the sixth most prevalent malignancy and the third greatest cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. [5] Every year, around 600,000 ...

5. Interventional oncology - Wikipedia

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   1990s – RFA for soft tissue tumors, i.e., bone, breast, kidney, lung and liver cancer. 1997 – Intra-arterial delivery of tumor-killing viruses and gene therapy vectors to the liver. 1997 – HIFU first used to treat prostate cancer. 2012 – Pioneering liver chemoperfusion study reported by Delcath for disseminated liver metastases. [32]

6. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization - Wikipedia

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   Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a minimally invasive procedure performed in interventional radiology to restrict a tumor's blood supply. Small embolic particles coated with chemotherapeutic drugs are injected selectively through a catheter into an artery directly supplying the tumor.

7. Interventional radiology - Wikipedia

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   Liver cancer: primary liver tumors such as hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma and liver metastases are often treated by procedures such as transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT/Y-90 radioembolization), portal vein embolization, transarterial/bland embolization, or image guided ablation ...