Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer

Friday, November 20, 2009 - 13:42 in Health & Medicine

In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's chance of long-term survival, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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