Many people suffering from liver cancer and related conditions now have a minimally invasive treatment option called transarterial chemoembolization, or TACE. With TACE, your RAO interventional radiologist guides a catheter to the blood vessel feeding the malignant tumor and injects it with chemotherapy as well as tiny particles called embolic agents that both block blood supply to the tumor and confine the chemotherapy within it, increasing chemo’s effectiveness.
TACE can be used to treat primary or metastasized liver cancer (cancer that has spread to the liver from another organ), as well as cancer of the bile ducts of the liver, a disease called cholangiocarcinoma. TACE may be used as a individual treatment or in conjunction with surgery, ablation, chemotherapy or radiation.
If you have liver cancer, talk to your doctor about whether TACE might be an effective treatment option for you.
