Transarterial intervention therapy termasuk Chemo embolization (TACE) dan infusion (TAI).

TACE untuk kanker hati:

    TACE menjadi salah satu cara yang paling populer dan effektive untuk mengobati pasien dengan kanker hati yamg unresectable (tidak bisa dioperasi) termasuk hepato celluler carcinoma (HCC) primer, metastase HCC dan kanker saluran empedu. Rasionalitas dari metode terapi ini didasarkan pada fakta bahwa kanker hati mendapat supply darah terutama dari a.hepatika, sedangkan jaringan hati sehat mendapat supply darah dari vena porta. Cabang a. hepatika yang memberi supply darah ke tumor dapat ditutup pada waktu arteriografi dengan menggunakan injeksi lipiodol ataupun gelatin-sponqe yang akan mengakibatkan nekrosis pada tumor. Obat kemoterapi sering dicampurkan kedalam lipiodol dan diberikan secara simultan. Protokol obat kemoterapi diinstitusi kami termasuk Doxorubicin, Epirubicin, Mitomycin C, Cisplatin dan Fluoxuridine.

Trans Arterial Infusion (TAI)
Indikasi:

Kanher hati, paru-paru, gastrointestinal, esophagus, pancreas, ginjal, nasopharyng, kepala dan leher, kandung kencing ,ovariun dan myoma uteri.

Chemoembolization pada arteria hepatika

DSA digunakan untuk arterial intervention therapy

Hepatic arterial intervention

 

 

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  Like normal body cells, cancerous cells are fed by blood vessels. A physician typically inserts a catheter at a point in the groin to access the femoral artery, although he or she may sometimes use an artery from the arm. While monitoring the location of the catheter using fluoroscopy, a type of DSA, the physician steers the catheter through the arterial system to the tumor.

 

   Eventually, the physician delivers cancer treatment through the catheter directly to the tumor. The physician may also use long, thin needles to deliver treatment to cancer tumors.

 

The following types of cancer therapes are administered using interventional techniques:

 

Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)- embolization materials and chemical drugs are injected through a catheter that is placed directly into an artery that supplies a cancer tumor. TACE appears to hold promise especially for aggressive liver cancers.

 

Transarterial chemical infusion (TACI)- chemical drugs are directly infused into tumor to kill cancerous cells. This method is adaptable for treatment of many different types of cancer.

 

   Interventional therapy deposits chemotherapy drugs directly into the tumor, sparing healthy tissue. Therefore, a physician can safely use higher doses of these drugs. The benefits of this method include:

 

   The side effects and complications of interventional therapy depend upon the reason for the procedure and location of interventional treatment. In general, interventional therapy is safe and commonly associated with only minor side effects, including: