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- Title
Locoregional therapies in liver tumors.
- Authors
Dokdok, Murat
- Abstract
Altough surgery is curative, hardly one third of patients with HCC are suitable candidates for hepatic resection. Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice in a selected subset of patients, but this modality is plagued by the limited availability of donors. With regards to secondary tumors, only 25% of patients with colorectal metastases are candidates for surgery. Systemic chemotherapy has been shown to have limited therapeutic effects for primary and secondary hepatic malignancies, with low tumor response rates. Hence palliative management is the mainstay of therapy for most patients with primary and secondary liver tumors, most investigative efforts have now converged on local control. Loco-regional therapies as ablation and embolization are the two main groups in interventional oncology.
- Subjects
LIVER cancer; LIVER transplantation; PALLIATIVE treatment of cancer
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p54
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Abstract