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Lecture 7 mins
Think global, act local!
Martijn Ruben MEIJERINK, Amsterdam University Medical Center
Interventional oncology, probably second to immune-oncology, is amongst the fastest growing subspecialties in healthcare today. For the past 2 decades, interventional oncologists have sophisticated diagnostic guiding devices to deploy multiple sources of thermal energy, such as electromagnetic waves from the radiofrequency and microwave spectrum, and more recently non-thermal energies, such as pulsed electrical fields and interstitial brachytherapy, which have all proven the ability to macroscopically eradicate cancerous tissue.
Though the foundation of interventional oncology lies in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, needle-guided tumor ablation and trans-arterial therapies are steadily gaining ground as first line treatment of unresectable colorectal and non-colorectal liver metastases (figure), intrahepatic...
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