What is the success rate of liver cancer resection surgery? The success rate is very high

What is the success rate of liver cancer resection surgery? The importance of the liver to our human body is self-evident, and the incidence of liver cancer cannot be underestimated. Although our living standards and medical standards have made great progress and development, we are still powerless in the face of the invasion of the disease. Surgery is one of the common ways to treat liver cancer. So, what is the success rate of liver cancer resection surgery?

Liver cancer is one of the most common tumors in my country, and about 50% of liver cancers in the world occur in my country. Surgical resection has always been regarded as the "gold standard" for liver cancer treatment. The surgical resection of liver cancer has also experienced many leaps, from regular resection of large liver cancers, to local irregular resection of small liver cancers, to secondary resection of unresectable liver cancer after treatment, which has greatly improved the surgical resection rate.

With the improvement of perioperative treatment and nursing quality, the mortality rate of liver surgery is also decreasing, and some can even reach zero mortality. The complication rate can also be reduced to less than 10%. However, more than 85% of liver cancer patients in my country have varying degrees of hepatitis, cirrhosis, and poor liver reserve capacity. In addition, the onset of liver cancer patients is hidden, and the early symptoms are not obvious, which makes liver cancer patients miss the best time for surgery.

Only 10%-20% of patients can actually undergo surgical resection. Even for small liver cancers smaller than 5cm, if combined with severe liver cirrhosis, surgical resection will still cause great trauma to the liver. Due to the biological characteristics of the liver itself, recurrence is very likely after surgery. Statistics show that the recurrence rate of patients with small liver cancer after surgery is as high as 43.5%. Even the most sophisticated surgical resection cannot solve the problem of tumor recurrence.

With the continuous development of various auxiliary technologies such as imaging, various minimally invasive treatment technologies have been applied to the treatment of liver cancer, including intervention, cryosurgery, microwave, radiofrequency, etc. The best of these technologies is radiofrequency ablation therapy. Its efficacy in treating small liver cancer has been widely accepted.

Radiofrequency ablation is less invasive and has good efficacy. The 2008 edition of the American NCCN and the Japanese Surgical Society's clinical practice guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma have identified radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as one of the three important methods of treating liver cancer, along with surgery and liver transplantation.

The efficacy of radiofrequency ablation is completely comparable to that of surgical resection. It breaks the situation that surgical resection is the only means to cure liver cancer. Because it is less invasive, less damaging to liver function, and has a fast recovery after surgery, it can be re-treated multiple times for newly formed and recurrent cancers. For patients with large liver cancer who cannot undergo surgical resection, radiofrequency ablation can achieve the purpose of radical cure through repeated ablation. It is undeniable that radiofrequency ablation is another new option for liver cancer treatment.