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Cancer treatments
Using catheters or needles, physicians can deliver radiation or chemotherapy drugs directly into tumors, sparing healthy, surrounding tissue.
Interventional treatments include:
- Chemo-embolization, in which chemotherapy drugs are injected into an artery supplying a tumor with blood
- Tumor ablation, in which cold, heat or radiofrequency waves are used to destroy tumor cells
Advantages:
Treatments are less invasive and typically involve less pain and quicker recovery. Many can be performed on an outpatient basis or with a short hospital stay.
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