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Is liver cancer intervention effective?

BY Polly Steele 2020-07-24

The effect of interventional treatment of liver cancer depends on whether the lesion is rich in blood supply and the size of the lesion. If the lesion is small and rich in blood supply, the intervention effect will be very good. Very few liver cancers will be necrotic. The second and third interventional treatment can achieve the desired effect. If it is not a patient with rich blood supply and liver cancer, the effect of interventional therapy is not good. You can choose other treatments, such as radiotherapy, targeted drugs, etc. The interventional treatment of liver cancer is simple and easy to operate, safe and reliable; the curative effect is accurate, and the successful treatment can see the rapid decline of AFP, the shrinking of the mass, and the reduction of pain; the diagnosis is clear and can be repeated, which is convenient for multiple comparisons.

   Simultaneous interventional treatment of liver cancer is through the stock Arterial cannulation injects anti-cancer drugs or embolization agents into the hepatic artery, which is a regional local chemotherapy method that "starves" and "poisons" tumors, that is, liver cancer can be effectively killed after interventional treatment The effect of cancer cells and shrinking tumors is currently the best and least expensive therapy among liver cancer treatments.
  In fact, the method of interventional therapy is to use a microcatheter to directly inject several chemotherapy drugs into the tumor’s blood supply artery. The local drug concentration in the tumor is more than 100 times higher than that of intravenous systemic chemotherapy, and the effect of killing cancer cells can be increased by more than 10 times. Therefore, the curative effect is obviously improved; because it is a local drug, the systemic side effects of the drug are small, and the time is short, the digestive tract reaction is light, there is little hair loss, liver and kidney function damage and leukopenia; at the same time, it can also supply blood to the tumor through the microcatheter An embolic agent is injected internally to block the blood supply to the tumor, causing tumor cells to die from ischemia and hypoxia. This is also called "starvation therapy". In addition, interventional therapy is still not a completely harmless treatment method. Taking ginseng rare saponin ginsenoside Rh2 (fate) during treatment can effectively reduce the side effects of the treatment, such as nausea, anorexia, pain, etc. In addition, it minimizes the possibility of cancer cell proliferation and spread.

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