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Liver Cancer Treatment

Dr. Ignacio Rua, Chief of Vascular Surgery with Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, considers there are a lot of great technologies that make liver cancer treatment either interventional or percutaneous. In surgery there are so many techniques now to help minimize blood loss, he says. Dr. Ripal Gandhi, Interventional Radiologist with Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, adds for liver cancer, the first line treatment is surgery, embolization or ablation. In other cases, systemic chemotherapy is the first option.

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