Nonsurgical Treatment for Localized Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Nonsurgical Treatment for Localized Hepatocellular Carcinoma

The most common non-surgical approaches for the treatment of localized hepatocellular carcinoma remain hepatic artery-delivered particles laden with chemotherapy (TACE), or radioactive microparticles (TARE). External beam radiotherapy has been an effective option in many parts of the world for selected HCC patients, but now has an expanded role with stereotactic and proton beam technologies. Th...

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment; Nonsurgical Approaches

Primary liver cancer (PLC) is one of the common cancers with high incidence and poor prognosis. PLC has become one of the major diseases that causes serious harm to human health and life. In recent years, domestic and foreign researchers have studied and summarized the current status of primary liver cancer treatment, and have made great progress as well. Significant progress in terms of early ...

Preclinical studies of 166Ho-chitosan for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

Introduction: Recently, due to the special characteristics of 166Ho and chitosan, 166Ho-chitosan complex was developed for treatment of tumors such as hepatocellular carcinoma. This complex has been lately prepared with high radiochemical purity in our lab. The preclinical studies of the complex however should be performed to evaluate the tracer concentration in target and...

Nonsurgical Treatment Options for Basal Cell Carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) remains the most common form of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in Caucasians, with perhaps as many as 2 million new cases expected to occur in the United States in 2010. Many treatment options, including surgical interventions and nonsurgical alternatives, have been utilized to treat BCC. In this paper, two non-surgical options, imiquimod therapy and photodynamic ther...

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sheep