Can advanced liver cancer be cured? How to treat advanced liver cancer?

When liver cancer is in the late stage, there will be targeted treatment, which also needs to be measured according to the condition and the patient's body. Patients with late-stage liver cancer should actively receive treatment. If they give up early, there will be no chance of cure. Only by persistence can they win.

1. Radiation therapy

In recent years, with the progress of research in radiation physics and radiation physiology, radiotherapy equipment has been developed, using cobalt 60 gamma rays or X-rays and high-energy rays from electron linear accelerators, and the irradiation methods and ranges for liver cancer have also been improved. From the original whole liver irradiation-local irradiation-whole liver mobile radiotherapy-surgical positioning local irradiation and hyperfractionated irradiation, the radiotherapy effect of liver cancer has been significantly improved, and the side effects have been reduced to the lowest level. It mainly includes external radiotherapy and internal radiotherapy.

2. Chemotherapy

95% of liver cancer patients have lost the chance of surgery when diagnosed, and most liver cancer patients still rely on chemotherapy. In the past, chemotherapy for liver cancer was not highly evaluated, especially the systemic administration had little effect. In recent years, the administration route of chemotherapy has been changed, and hepatic artery chemotherapy and embolization have been performed, which has significantly improved the chemotherapy effect of liver cancer. It is currently believed that intubation chemotherapy is better than systemic combined chemotherapy, and combined chemotherapy is better than single-drug chemotherapy. Hepatic artery intubation chemotherapy is considered to be the best treatment for patients with liver cancer who are not suitable for surgery.

3. Interventional radiology

The interventional radiology technique of percutaneous superselective hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy and embolization, which emerged in the 1980s and has developed rapidly, plays a vital role. Whether it is the treatment of early localized liver cancer or mid-to-late stage liver cancer, this interventional radiology technique is a decisive treatment method and is indispensable.