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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 ...
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 ...
Sirtex Medical Limited is a medical device firm that offers radioactive treatment for inoperable liver cancer called SIR-Spheres microspheres. [1] Sirtex was founded in 1997 in Australia and today has offices and production facilities in the U.S., Australia, Germany, and Singapore.
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 ...
1990s – RFA for soft tissue tumors, i.e., bone, breast, kidney, lung and liver cancer. 1997 – Intra-arterial delivery of tumor-killing viruses and gene therapy vectors to the liver. 1997 – HIFU first used to treat prostate cancer. 2012 – Pioneering liver chemoperfusion study reported by Delcath for disseminated liver metastases. [32]
Lentigo in cats is a common dermatological condition characterized by the presence of small, flat, brownish spots on the skin — particularly around the lips, nose, and eyelid margins. Unlike in ...
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck suffered an elbow injury during Saturday's SEC Conference championship against Texas and is looking into treatment options, the school confirmed in a release on Monday.
A liver support system or diachysis is a type of therapeutic device to assist in performing the functions of the liver. Such systems focus either on removing the accumulating toxins (liver dialysis), or providing additional replacement of the metabolic functions of the liver through the inclusion of hepatocytes to the device (bioartificial liver device).