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SUBMITTER: Sundram FX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301920 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sundram Francis X FX Buscombe John R JR
Clinical medicine (London, England) 20171001 5
Primary and secondary liver malignancies are common and associated with a poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice; however, many patients have unresectable disease. In these cases, several liver directed therapies are available, including selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT). SIRT is a multidisciplinary treatment involving nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and oncology. High doses of localised internal radiation are selectively delivered to liver tumour tiss ...[more]