Comparison among three different TACE protocols (a slurry of chemotherapy, oil and PVA mixture; chemotherapy and oil followed by PVA; chemotherapy and oil followed by Gelfoam pledgets) was ...
Chemoembolisation is a treatment directly into the liver. You have chemotherapy into the blood vessel that feeds the tumour. Then you have small particles injected into the blood vessel to block off ...
HCC is very chemoresistant, thus embolization may be more important than chemotherapy. Lipiodol cannot be considered as an embolic agent and there are no data to show that it can release ...
Patients whose cancer cannot be removed by surgery are currently given a treatment called Tace (trans arterial chemoembolisation), which involves giving chemotherapy into the blood vessel that ...
There is expertise in tumor ablation techniques, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), and Ytrium90 intra-arterial spheres with approximately 100 patients treated with these interventions annually.