Liver Cancer Treatments – Liver Transplantation is offered in many institutions for patients with hepatocellular carcinomas of limited extent. These tumors have to be either a solitary lesion of less than five centimeters or up to three lesions of three centimeters or less.
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Liver Cancer Treatments- Isolated Liver Perfusion is a still experimental technique done in only a few locations.
A group at the NCI is currently investigating this approach. It is quite invasive and technically demanding.
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Liver Cancer Treatments – Portal Vein Embolization is a liver cancer treatments technique originally pioneered in the 1980’s by a leader in liver surgery from Japan, Masatochi Makuuchi.
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Liver Cancer Treatments – Interstitial Laser Photocoagulation and Microwave, Both of these techniques are additional ways to directly injure or kill tumors within the liver.
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Liver Cancer Treatments – Hepatic Artery Infusion has generally been used in patients with colon or rectal metastases to the liver.
A pump is implanted at an operation in which a tube (catheter) is threaded into the hepatic artery. Subsequently, chemotherapy drugs are injected periodically through the skin into the chamber of the pump, which then through a gas driven bellows puts the right amount of chemotherapy drug right into the liver itself.
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