Can yttrium 90 microsphere therapy be used to treat advanced liver cancer in Hong Kong?
Clinical application of yttrium 90 microspheres in the treatment of primary liver cancer. Yttrium 90 microspheres can achieve the therapeutic purpose of high curative effect and few side effects under the condition of proper selection and planned radiation dose. Published medical research shows that Yttrium 90 microspheres can be effectively used for palliative treatment of advanced T liver cancer, and can also be used as a transitional treatment before liver transplantation for liver cancer, which can prolong the time for patients to wait for liver source. Gang 'an Health said that Yttrium 90 microspheres can reduce the stage of unresectable liver cancer to resectable liver cancer, and can also convert unresectable liver cancer into liver transplantation. It is very effective to use yttrium 90 microspheres as a new method of internal irradiation hepatectomy. Yttrium 90 microspheres also have an ideal effect on patients with recurrent liver cancer after partial hepatectomy.