Liver Cancer Treatment

ticletext">On the day of treatment, the patient issmall, unresectable hepatocellular tumors and for
given a mild sedative and pain medication. Thesome types of metastatic liver cancers. Although the
radiologist makes a tiny incision in the groin—noprocedure has a somewhat higher risk of serious
larger than the tip of a pencil—to gain access to thecomplications than alcohol injection does, it appears to
femoral artery. Using moving X-ray imagesprovide better outcomes.
(fluoroscopy) as a visual guide, the physician directs aA natural home remedy is one way to help you heal.
thin, flexible tube (catheter) through the artery andIt is a form of self-help. This is what the focus of my
into the main blood vessel feeding the liver tumor.site is. First let me congratulate you on taking control
The radioactive beads are injected and carried in theof your own health. Not an easy task for some
bloodstream up to the tumor, where they embedconsidering all the focus on modern medicine and the
and slowly kill the cancerous cells.negative information on natural health.
Hepatocellular cancer is more likely to develop inTreatment of liver cancer may involve surgery,
people with chronic cirrhosis. Your specialist mayinterventional radiological procedures, and
suggest a liver transplant if you have cirrhosis of thechemotherapy or radiation therapy. Individual
liver because of previous liver disease, infection withtreatment depends largely on the type and extent of
a hepatitis virus or from drinking alcohol. You will onlydisease.
benefit from a liver transplant if you have a singleAlcohol injection. In this procedure, pure alcohol is
liver tumour that is less than 5cm across, or up to 3injected directly into tumors, either through the skin
tumours all less than 3cm across. There is an addedor during an operation. Alcohol dries out the cells of
difficulty of having to wait for a suitable donor. Thisthe tumor and eventually the cells die. Each
can take months. During this delay, the cancer willtreatment consists of one injection, although you
continue to grow and you have other treatment tomay need a series of injections for the best results.
try to control it.Alcohol injection has been shown to improve survival
Radiofrequency ablation procedure, electric current inin people with small hepatocellular tumors. It may also
the radiofrequency range is used to destroybe used to help reduce symptoms in cases of
malignant cells. Using an ultrasound or CT scan as ametastatic liver cancer. The most common side
guide, your surgeon inserts several thin needles intoeffect is leaking of alcohol onto the liver or into the
small incisions in your abdomen. When the needlesabdominal cavity.
reach the tumor, they're heated with an electricSurgery is increasingly being used for patients with
current, destroying the malignant cells.secondary liver cancer. This can sometimes involve
Radiofrequency ablation is an option for people withremoving a segment of liver.