Treatment of Liver Cancer In Israel

Liver cancer is called a malignant tumor that develops in the tissues of the liver structures.

Cancer is divided into:

- primary, developing directly in the liver tissues;

- secondary, which, due to the fact that the liver is a filter, occurs due to metastasis of tumors from other organs and can increase up to 80-90% of detected diseases;

- formed on the background of cirrhosis of the liver.

At the initial stages , liver cancer has a non-vaguely expressed clinical symptomatology. In the course of tumor growth, the tumors become noticeable: digestive problems in the form of nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite, increased malaise, muscle weakness, a feeling of heaviness after eating, stool color disappearing, swelling or bloating, aching pains under the ribs on the right side, palpable caller Pain a hard tumor under the ribs in the liver. The prolonged stage of liver cancer manifests itself by the appearance of jaundice, a bleeding inside the abdomen, which manifests as vomiting of "coffee grounds" and tarry stool "melena", an expansion of the vessels of the anterior wall of the peritoneum, an increase in the spleen, peritonitis.

To identify, determine the exact location and presence of liver cancer metastases in Israel, use methods:

* Test for the presence in the blood of the oncomarker - the alpha-fetoprotein protein (AFP), whose level in the blood increases with the development of the malignant process;

* Ultrasound (ultrasound) of the hepatic organ;

* Biopsy (extracting a prototype tissue), performed by aspiration (fine-needle and thick-needle biopsy), laparoscopic and surgical methods;

* PET (positron emission tomography) and CT (computed tomography) ;

* Angiography of the blood vessels of the organ (institution in a vessel of a special substance with the subsequent study of the blood vessels of the liver on an x-ray).

As a preventive measure, hereditary testing can be used to prevent liver cancer or to notice it at the first stage in patients with oncological diseases in the genus.

Treatment of liver cancer in Israel takes into account the size of the tumor, the stage of the disease, whether there is cerroz and the degree of general well-being of the patient.

The basic method of curing liver cancer in Israel is urgent treatment.

Removal of oncological tumors of the liver can be performed with the help of: * zonal liver resection - removal of the liver site where the tumor is localized;

* Tumor ablation - blockage of cancer cells by temperature: high (radiofrequency ablation) or low (cryosurgery);

* Embolization - the introduction into the vessel of microscopic granules of plastic and other material that, except for the supply of blood to the tumor, stop its development;

* Liver transplantation - donor liver transplantation with large tumors and cirrhosis in the late stage.

Chemotherapy in the treatment of liver cancer in Israel is used in the form of medicines that directly affect the tumor-feeding blood vessels. It is successfully used in chemoembolization, when simultaneously blocking the flow of blood to the tumor and injecting chemotherapy drugs that strike only the malignant focus, without penetrating into the uninfected areas.

Israel leads in the use of modern methods of cancer treatment, among which:

* Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) - selective intravenous irradiation of the outbreak with miniature radioactive spheres;

* Targeted therapy - taking drugs that block the growth of cancer cells and proliferation of metastases.