Excuse me, the advantages and disadvantages of interventional therapy for liver cancer, is the recovery speed fast?

Advantages of interventional therapy for liver cancer:

1, the curative effect is exact. After successful treatment, AFP can be rapidly decreased, the tumor shrinks and the pain is relieved.

2. Scientific mechanism: The local drug concentration of interventional therapy is dozens of times higher than that of systemic chemotherapy, which blocks the blood supply of tumor, so the two-pronged approach is effective and less toxic than systemic chemotherapy.

3. Simple operation, safety and reliability.

4, the elderly and the infirm and those suffering from certain diseases can also be performed, without general anesthesia, and stay awake.

5. The cost is relatively low.

6. Repeatability, clear diagnosis and comparison, and easy comparison.

7. Some liver cancers can be resected in two steps after volume reduction.

8. It can be used as one of the important methods for comprehensive treatment of advanced tumors.

China has carried out this work for nearly 20 years, and there are many experience summary reports. It is reported that the 5-year survival rate of liver cancer with a diameter less than 5CM after treatment is 33%. The longest case in our hospital survived for 20 years.

Deficiency of interventional therapy for liver cancer;

1, the main blood supply of liver cancer depends on hepatic artery, but there is portal vein blood supply around the cancer block, so cancer cells can "drag out an ignoble existence".

2, the operation is difficult, the catheter should be superselective to enter the blood supply artery, but sometimes it is difficult to enter the hepatic artery. Some liver cancers can be supplied by multiple blood vessels.

3. Despite super-selective entry, it still has obvious side effects. According to the data analysis of our hospital, digestive tract reaction is the most.

4. Patients with portal vein tumor thrombus should consider or remove tumor thrombus as appropriate.

5. Even if superselective surgery is successfully performed, due to high-pressure injection and other reasons, it may cause false embolism, shunt and inevitable micrometastasis.

6. Normal liver cells are still damaged, and a few patients even have abnormal liver function.

7. The curative effect of patients with too large tumor is not ideal.

8. Some patients have blocked blood vessels after one treatment and it is difficult to operate again.

Therefore, whether interventional therapy for liver cancer is successful or not, it still needs active prevention and treatment.