What are the treatments for ovarian cancer liver metastasis?

Ovarian cancer is one of the common malignant tumors of female reproductive organs, and its incidence has been increasing year by year in recent years. The early symptoms of ovarian cancer are not obvious. When the disease progresses, it is often in the middle and late stages, and distant metastases will occur in various organs, such as liver metastasis, intestinal metastasis, lung metastasis, etc. The following takes ovarian cancer liver metastasis as an example to introduce the treatment methods of ovarian cancer liver metastasis.

The conventional treatment methods for liver metastasis of ovarian cancer include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and new tumor biological treatment technologies. Doctors point out that surgical treatment of liver metastasis of ovarian cancer should fully consider the patient's liver and kidney function, and is often used as a palliative surgical resection, which cannot completely remove cancer cells in the body. At the same time, for some patients with poor physical fitness who cannot tolerate surgical treatment or have contraindications to surgery, surgical treatment is often not performed. Instead, comprehensive treatment with radiotherapy and chemotherapy or combined tumor biological treatment is performed according to the patient's specific physical condition.

The main purpose of conventional chemotherapy for ovarian cancer liver metastasis is to control the proliferation of cancer cells by directly killing cancer cells and increasing the level of white blood cells in the blood. However, during the chemotherapy process, due to the great toxic side effects of the chemotherapy drugs themselves, while killing the remaining cancer cells in the body, they also damage the normal immune cells in the human body, which is not conducive to the patient's recovery.

Radiotherapy for ovarian cancer liver metastasis can also kill tumor cells through high-dose radiation in the short term, with significant short-term therapeutic effects. However, radiotherapy can also produce great toxic and side effects, such as radiation damage, radiation myelitis, and bone marrow suppression, which can lead to decreased immunity in patients. Some patients who cannot tolerate it may suffer from overtreatment, which can aggravate their condition.

In view of the great toxic and side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a comprehensive treatment plan combined with tumor biological therapy is often recommended clinically to enhance the patient's autonomous anti-cancer immunity, comprehensively inhibit the recurrence and metastasis of tumor cells, shut down cancer cell proliferation signals, fully mobilize the body's natural anti-cancer ability, supplement and balance the body's immune environment that recovers slowly due to various reasons, reasonably adjust the treatment cycle of ovarian cancer liver metastasis, improve the patient's physical condition, improve the quality of life, and prolong the patient's effective survival period.