Radiation therapy has emerged as a vital component in the management of both primary and secondary liver malignancies, addressing a spectrum from curative intent to symptomatic palliation.

The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...

Monitoring the hepatic function of unresectable liver cancer patients, measured by 99mTc-labeled iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) via single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) prior to and during ...

SBRT combined with Nexavar improved median OS to 15.8 months versus 12.3 months with Nexavar alone in patients with advanced HCC. Median PFS increased from 5.5 months with Nexavar alone to 9.2 months ...

The risk of developing liver cancer is increased in people who have cirrhosis, a disease in which healthy liver tissue is replaced by scar tissue. The scar tissue blocks the flow of blood through the ...

Dan G. Duda, DMD, PhD, of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology and Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in ...

And the second question is how healthy the liver is. Hepatocellular carcinoma is unique because we're treating both a malignancy and an underlying chronic liver disease. I use multidisciplinary ...

Approximately 25% of patients with colorectal cancer present with metastatic disease to the liver at diagnosis, and about 50% develop liver metastases at some point during the course of the disease.

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Resection of liver metastases is considered the only treatment with curative potential for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver (CRLM). However, only a minority of patients with ...