Chemoembolization – pro
Lay Summary: TACE is often used for hepatocellular carcinoma and neuroendocrine cancers of the liver. This technique takes advantage of the fact that HCC is a very vascular (contains many blood vessels) tumor and gets its blood supply exclusively from the branches of the hepatic artery. This procedure is similar to intra-arterial infusion of chemotherapy. But in TACE, there is the additional step of blocking (embolizing) the small blood vessels
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