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How To Burn Off Liver Tumor Other Than Chemotherapy?

Sir; I found out that I have liver cancer, UCLA sends me in to get MRI s every 3 months, they won t do anything until the tumor reaches 2 cc. Then they said they can do something to the tumor, like burn it off or radiation or even chemo. I don t want chemo, how do they burn it off is my question? Thank you...
posted on Fri, 7 Mar 2014
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For very small liver tumor there are multiple treatment options.Surgery is one of the best and oldest treatment option.With modern laparoscopic/robotic approach it is lot easier for patient compared to older days.

Now ,non surgical treatment options are also available.These include ablating(burning) tumor with Radiofrequency (RFA) in which a needle(electrode probe) is placed inside the tumor under image guidance and tumor is ablated using radiofrequency energy .

Other option are trans-arterial chemo or radioembolization in which chemotherapy or radiotherapy is delivered only to part of liver affected by tumor from blood vessel.
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How To Burn Off Liver Tumor Other Than Chemotherapy?

Hello; Welcome to HCM For very small liver tumor there are multiple treatment options.Surgery is one of the best and oldest treatment option.With modern laparoscopic/robotic approach it is lot easier for patient compared to older days. Now ,non surgical treatment options are also available.These include ablating(burning) tumor with Radiofrequency (RFA) in which a needle(electrode probe) is placed inside the tumor under image guidance and tumor is ablated using radiofrequency energy . Other option are trans-arterial chemo or radioembolization in which chemotherapy or radiotherapy is delivered only to part of liver affected by tumor from blood vessel.