“Can liver cancer be treated with interventional radiology?”

You can treat with bland embolization or chemoembolization as well as possible yttrium embolization to which has a nuclear procedure where beta admitting particles are flushed into the liver cancer in the locally destroy the cancer with nuclear wave treatment. Dr. Charles Nutting, MD, is a brilliant interventional radiologist In Colorado just South Denver that does a lot of this catheter based, minimally invasive liver oncology treatment work in his vascular lab over there. Very brilliant guy. You can contact him for further questions. Tell him I said hello. Although there are many physicians around the country that can do chemoembolizations or yttrium or these other type of catheter based interventions for liver cancer as well. He just have to inquire from interventional radiologists in your area. Hope that helps.

The short answer is yes, depending on the type, size, and location of the liver cancer we have several ways of treating liver tumors. We can kill the tumor by ablation( burning or freezing the tumor) or via the arteries that feed the tumor blocking them and delivering chemotherapy or radiation directly to the tumor.

Certainly, primary liver cancer is often treated with therapies offered by an interventional radiologist. However, treatment decisions for liver cancer are best made by a multi-disciplinary team, including a surgeon, liver specialist, oncologist and interventional radiologist. Treatment decisions should be tailored for each patient, based on the location and extent of disease, health of the liver, and other additional health factors.

Liver cancer can be treated with interventional radiology. It can be treated in several different ways without the need for surgery depending on the size and number of tumors in the liver.

Sorry to hear your mother is going through this. Yes, many tumors can be treated by docs like myself either with chemoagent through artery or radiation through artery that we access and/or burning or freezing the tumor.

There are many treatment options offered by Interventional Radiology for liver cancer. Ablation, radioembolization and/or chemoembolization may be appropriate depending upon the size, location and number of tumors in the liver. These are all minimally invasive options commonly utilized for the treatment of liver cancer. With ablation a needle is placed into the tumor and the tumor is burned away. Radio and chemo embolization both involve placing a catheter into the arteries supplying the tumor and delivering very small beads coated with radiation or chemotherapy directly into the tumor.