How to treat advanced liver cancer and control the disease? Interventional treatment is the first choice for advanced liver cancer

The incidence of malignant tumors is increasing. According to statistics from authoritative departments in my country last year, an average of 6 malignant tumor patients are diagnosed every minute. There are many treatments for malignant tumors at present, and interventional therapy is one of the more effective and mature treatments. In recent years, "interventional therapy" has become a hot topic in the medical community. And this minimally invasive "non-surgical" method has gradually been recognized and accepted by patients. Let the experts take you to understand tumor interventional therapy.

What is “interventional treatment” for tumors?

All interventional treatment operations need to be performed under the monitoring and guidance of medical imaging equipment such as DSA, CT, MRI, and ultrasound. For example, doctors use DSA equipment, which is like having "X-ray eyes". They can introduce a thin catheter into the tumor blood vessels and directly infuse anticancer drugs into the tumor, so that the tumor has a high drug concentration. On this basis, embolic agents can be injected through the catheter to block the tumor blood vessels, cut off the tumor's nutritional source, and "starve" the tumor to death. This method has accurate positioning, high efficacy, and few side effects. In addition, the puncture wound for introducing the catheter is the same size as the injection needle hole for our daily injections, which causes little trauma to the patient.

"Minimally invasive" is a distinctive feature of tumor interventional treatment, and direct access to the site for precise positioning treatment is a "trump card" of interventional treatment. Current clinical studies have shown that the efficacy of interventional treatment for small liver cancer is comparable to that of traditional surgery, and interventional treatment for advanced liver cancer has been recognized as the preferred treatment method.

Which patients are suitable for interventional treatment?

Experts say that liver cancer is the most representative and has the most cases. It is currently believed that only 10%-15% of patients with clinically discovered liver cancer have the opportunity for surgical resection. For liver cancer that cannot be removed, interventional treatment can be used to shrink the tumor before surgical resection. Hysterectomy for uterine fibroids has been replaced by interventional therapy in most cases, preserving the uterus. A wide range of tumors can be treated with interventional therapy, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy failure, postoperative tumor residue, metastasis, and recurrence.