Non-surgical treatments
Ablation therapy: Tumors are destroyed in the liver without taking them out. There are multiple ways to do this, like cryoablation, microwave, radiofrequency, and ethanol.
Chemotherapy: Cancer cells are killed or are stopped from production by using drugs. Thischemotherapy technique can be systemic,e., the injections or the pills used to travel through the whole body.
Targeted therapy:This treatment procedure involves using drugs that focus on the tissue or gene of cancer. It is quite different from chemotherapy.
Immunotherapy:Using drugs that immediately the body’s immune system to kill cancer cells. It, too, is different than chemotherapy.
Loco–regionaltherapy: Injecting beads that emit radiation into the blood vessel that maintains the malignant growth or tumor (i.e., radioembolization). This type of therapy also has another version known as hepatic artery chemoembolization. The chemotherapeutic drug and the beads are combined for artery blockage in this procedure.
Trans-arterial chemoembolization:For the initial treatment of loco-regional HCC and downstaging the surpassed tumors. It is known as TACE. It can be considered before RFA and HR as regarded a neoadjuvant therapy which either reduces the volume of tumor or can also target micrometastasis.
