What are the advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer? 8 reasons for choosing interventional treatment for liver cancer

Interventional treatment of liver cancer is to introduce special puncture needles, catheters, guide wires, balloons, stents, drainage tubes and other precision instruments into the human body under the guidance of medical imaging equipment to diagnose and locally treat some liver diseases, including primary liver cancer, metastatic liver cancer, hepatic hemangioma, liver cyst, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, intractable ascites and gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic vein occlusion (Budd-Chiari syndrome), benign and malignant obstruction of the bile duct, liver bleeding, etc., as well as liver puncture biopsy.

The vast majority of liver cancers discovered clinically are in the middle or advanced stages and are often complicated by liver cirrhosis, so the surgical resection rate is generally less than 20%. Interventional therapy is currently the most effective and commonly used treatment method for patients whose liver cancer cannot be surgically removed. Because metastatic liver cancer is mostly a multiple lesion, interventional therapy is currently the most commonly used diagnostic and treatment technology.

8 reasons to choose interventional treatment for liver cancer

1. Local anesthesia: no general anesthesia is required, so there is no system interference and general anesthesia risk;

2. Small trauma: skin wounds can be ignored and patients suffer less pain;

3. Strong repeatability: It is not limited by the metabolic cycle of tumor cells. According to the condition and treatment needs, it can be used in stages, multiple times, and repeatedly to treat multiple or recurring tumor nodules;

4. Real-time efficacy evaluation: Under the monitoring of modern imaging equipment (DSA), the objective efficacy of various treatment methods can be accurately evaluated in real time and in the most effective way;

5. Small side effects: small dosage, high local drug concentration, no drug resistance problem, and small side effects;

6. Strong targeting: precise positioning, precise treatment, direct cutting off of tumor blood supply, “starving” tumor cells to death, with minimal damage to normal tissues;

7. Quick recovery: patients can usually move normally 12 hours after surgery and be discharged from the hospital in 4-5 days;

8. Significant therapeutic effect: After interventional treatment, the patient's survival time is prolonged and the quality of life is significantly improved.