What are the advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer? Detailed description of several advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer

Although the term "interventional diagnosis and treatment" is familiar to many people, many lack the most direct understanding and know very little about its true nature. According to experts, interventional radiology is an emerging clinical discipline that integrates the American Society of Medical Imaging and accumulated clinical treatment surgery. It uses minimally invasive methods under the guidance of medical imaging equipment to achieve the purpose of diagnosing or treating diseases. It has many advantages such as less trauma, less pain, quick results, fewer complications, quick recovery, and no damage to the body structure. One of the treatments for liver cancer is interventional therapy. Let the experts explain it to you below.

Interventional treatment for liver cancer

Chemotherapy is the application of chemical drugs for treatment. In the past half century, chemotherapy has developed from the single application of a few chemotherapy drugs to the combined application of multiple drugs. In addition to the original intravenous systemic chemotherapy, new methods of administration have also emerged, such as adjuvant chemotherapy, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and special chemotherapy (arterial, intracavitary perfusion, etc.). Since chemotherapy drugs can cause damage to the patient's body while destroying cancer cells, it is currently not recommended to use systemic intravenous chemotherapy for liver cancer patients in clinical practice, but to use less harmful radiological interventional therapy.

Radiological interventional therapy is a new chemotherapy approach developed in recent years. The method is to enter the hepatic artery that supplies blood to liver cancer through a catheter, inject chemotherapy drugs, increase local drug concentration and thus improve efficacy, while reducing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy drugs on other parts of the body. Radiological interventional therapy is mainly suitable for liver cancer patients whose conditions are not too bad but are not suitable for surgery. At present, this method has become the first choice for non-surgical treatment of patients with unresectable liver cancer. Its disadvantages are that it is not effective for secondary liver cancer and some primary liver cancers, and it can cause liver damage.

What are the advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer?

Experts said that interventional treatment of primary liver cancer has many advantages, such as minimally invasive, fast recovery, and strong repeatability. It has become an important means of liver cancer treatment, especially for patients who cannot undergo surgical resection or are unwilling to undergo surgical treatment. And for patients with small liver cancer (tumor diameter less than 5cm, number less than 3), TACE combined with ablation treatment can also achieve a treatment effect comparable to surgery.