Why is liver cancer suitable for interventional treatment? Six advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer

In recent years, liver cancer has become one of the major diseases that endanger society and human health, and it has brought great pain and distress to mankind. Liver cancer has an insidious onset, and once discovered, it is often in the middle or late stages, often missing the opportunity for surgery. At this time, interventional therapy becomes the best choice for treating liver cancer. Its characteristics are simplicity, safety, effectiveness, minimal invasion, and few complications. To a certain extent, interventional therapy is equivalent to surgery without surgery. Let the experts explain it to you in detail below.

Why is liver cancer suitable for interventional treatment?

What is interventional treatment for liver cancer? When liver cancer patients cannot undergo resection surgery, interventional treatment for liver cancer is the most suitable first choice for patients. Interventional treatment involves inserting a catheter through the patient's thigh blood vessels to the liver tumor site, and then performing embolization/chemotherapy on the tumor.

Advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer compared to surgical treatment. By comparing with surgical treatment, it can be found that interventional treatment is also a good choice for liver cancer patients. Therefore, although interventional treatment is not as effective as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the eyes of most people, it is acceptable to choose this method when necessary. Compared with surgery, the biggest advantage of interventional treatment is that it causes less trauma to patients, the operation time is short, and the cost of a single treatment is low. In addition, the recent treatment effect of liver cancer has found that the one-year survival rate of patients receiving interventional treatment is nearly 70%, and the two-year survival rate is close to 40%. Interventional treatment can also convert some liver cancers that cannot be surgically removed into resectable ones, thereby improving the treatment effect.

At present, the main purpose of interventional treatment is to relieve the symptoms of advanced patients and improve their quality of life.

Advantages of interventional treatment for liver cancer

1. Small trauma: The skin wound is only about 2mm, and the patient suffers less pain;

2. Minimally invasive interventional treatment has high repeatability;

3. Real-time efficacy evaluation: Under the monitoring of modern imaging equipment (DSA), accurate real-time efficacy evaluation is performed;

4. Small side effects: small dosage, high local drug concentration, no drug resistance problem, and small side effects;

5. Strong targeting: precise positioning, precise treatment, and little damage to normal tissues;

6. Quick recovery: Normal activities can usually be resumed 12 hours after surgery;