SBRT improved local progression-free survival over RFA in small recurrent HCC, particularly in tumors 2 cm or less.

Relatively fewer results are available for microwave ablation of liver tumors than for RF ablation. In 1994 Seki et al [24] treated 18 patients with small (up to 2 cm), solitary examples of HCC ...

Sometimes it is possible to remove the larger tumors in the liver and kill any smaller remaining tumors with techniques that heat the tumor, like radiofrequency or microwave ablation. About half of ...

The risk of developing liver cancer is increased in people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is ...

Ablation therapies use heat, cold or a technique to cut off the cancer’s blood supply. These methods are particularly useful ...

St. David’s Medical Center in Austin is the first hospital in Central Texas to offer histotripsy, a noninvasive ultrasound ...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA) are both treatments to the liver. RFA uses radio waves and MWA uses ... Treatment for neuroendocrine cancer can be difficult to cope with for ...

Treatment options for liver cancer include surgery, tumor ablation, embolization, radiation, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, ...

A sensation of fullness beneath the ribs on the right side A similar feeling under the ribs on the left side Yellowing of the eyes and skin A swollen abdomen, as if it’s accumulating fluid Hepatitis B ...

Development of a methylation-based, tissue-agnostic test for the detection of molecular residual disease by circulating tumor DNA. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal ...

Researchers describe successful tumor removal through the use of immunotherapy and targeted radiation therapy (TARE), in a patient previously considered ineligible for the procedure.

As with the other minimally invasive treatments for liver tumors, ethanol ablation is associated with a relatively low complication rate. In a study of 86 patients with 112 small (up to 3 cm ...