Abstract
Interventional oncology is developing rapidly as a result of advances in imaging and medical devices. Although the treatments offered are recent and not yet fully validated in the guidelines, they allow non-invasive curative treatments to be offered to a growing number of patients. When it is used in a highly selected patients with less than three metastases under 2-3cm in size, percutaneous tumor ablation offers local efficacy similar to excision surgery with considerable sparing of the parenchyma, both for lung and liver metastases. Hepatic intra-arterial therapies (chemotherapy, radioembolization, and chemoembolization) are now g-salvageg methods after chemotherapy has failed and are being assessed in earlier lines of treatment.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 647-654 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Diagnostic and interventional imaging |
Volume | 96 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Chemotherapy
- Colorectal cancer
- Image-guided surgery
- Metastases
- Radiofrequency