How effective is interventional treatment for liver cancer? Common knowledge about interventional treatment for liver cancer

Interventional treatment of liver cancer is to introduce special puncture needles, catheters, guidewires, balloon 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. Liver cancer is very suitable for interventional treatment. Embolization therapy for liver cancer patients can occlude tumor blood vessels, shrink tumor blood vessels, and cut off the tumor's nutritional source to achieve the purpose of treatment.

After the 1980s, interventional therapy began to be widely used in the treatment of liver cancer in our country. The treatment effect of primary liver cancer is very impressive. Regardless of the stage of primary liver cancer, the overall one-year survival rate of all liver cancers, including advanced liver cancer, can reach 80% to 85% regardless of early or late stages. The three-year survival rate is about 12%, and the five-year survival rate is about 7%. Of course, the effect of interventional treatment for small liver cancer is outstanding, and its treatment effect can even be comparable to surgery.