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Combination of gas embolization and chemotherapy can lead to complete tumor regression – News-Medical.Net
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a particularly stubborn form of cancer with few treatments and a high mortality rate.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 8 2020
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a particularly stubborn form of cancer with few treatments and a high mortality rate. It is usually treated by blocking the flow of blood to the tumor to induce cancer cell death. The common treatment, transarterial chemoembolization, is invasive and too imprecise to be a local drug delivery method.
Aiming to increase the precision, researchers at Tulane University created a combination treatment that involves vaporizing …
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