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  2. Selective internal radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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    Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells; however, normal cells are also damaged in the process. Currently, therapeutic doses of radiation can be targeted to tumors with great accuracy using linear accelerators in radiation oncology; however, when irradiating using external beam radiotherapy, the beam will always need to travel through healthy tissue, and the normal liver tissue is very ...

  3. SIR-Spheres - Wikipedia

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    SIR-Spheres microspheres are used to treat patients with unresectable liver cancer. These are mostly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), or metastatic neuroendocrine tumours (mNET). [1] Therapy goals are local disease control, downstaging to resection, bridging to transplantation, and extended ...

  4. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization - Wikipedia

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    TACE of liver tumors derives its beneficial effect by two primary mechanisms. [3] Most tumors within the liver are supplied by the proper hepatic artery, so arterial embolization preferentially interrupts the tumor's blood supply and stalls growth until neovascularization. Secondly, focused administration of chemotherapy allows for delivery of ...

  5. Liver cancer in cats and dogs - Wikipedia

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    Tumors that develop within the liver may be either benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Tumors can start in the liver, or spread to the liver from another cancer in the body. Malignant liver tumors have been reported to metastasize to other organs such as regional lymph nodes, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, spleen and others.

  6. Hepatocellular carcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Liver transplantation, replacing the diseased liver with a cadaveric or a living donor liver, plays an increasing role in treatment of HCC. Although outcomes following liver transplant were initially poor (20%–36% survival rate), [ 20 ] outcomes have significantly improved with improvement in surgical techniques and adoption of the Milan ...

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    A former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey's attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since ...

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    Some companies are weaving Trump's tariffs into their marketing efforts, telling consumers to buy now in case prices rise.

  9. ATC code A05 - Wikipedia

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    ATC code A05 Bile and liver therapy is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a system of alphanumeric codes developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the classification of drugs and other medical products. [1] [2] [3] Subgroup A05 is part of the anatomical group A Alimentary tract and ...