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CANCER PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
Interventional radiologists, interventional radiology embolization, vascular and interventional radiology
The Interventional Radiologist plays a vital role in the management
of patients with cancer. Some procedures like angiography and angioplasty
are used in patients with or without cancer. Interventional Radiology
involves pathologic testing without affecting the adjacent tissues. Cancer
complications can be treated with this. Fluid collection or foreign body
removal can be done with this. The Interventional Radiology is becoming
popular that the old treatment s for cancer, surgery and chemotherapy
and radiation therapy is very rarely done which may even become nil in
the future.
These treatment and diagnosis can be done as day cases .The patient can
go home the same day if everything is alright. They reduce the hospital
cost of the patient very much since the patient is discharged the same
day. The main advantage of the Interventional Radiology is that it is
used in diagnosis of cancer, treatment of cancer and treatment of complications
arising from cancer. So the Radiologic Technology Specialist plays an
important role in our lives.
Fluoroscopic CT or ultra sound involves insertion of a small needle in
the affected area and some sample is taken for pathologic testing. BY
way of taking in this manner it saves time and money for the patients,
They need not stay longer in hospital and need not spend much.
A chemotherapeutic agent is blended with small sponge particles and then
injected into the artery that supplies a tumor. By doing this way a lower
dosage of chemotherapeutic agent is delivered systemically concurrent
injection of sponge particles causes vascular stasis and has an ischemic
effect on the tumor itself. The sponge particles decrease blood flow through
the tumor and prolong the time that the chemotherapy agent is contact
with tumor cells
Transcather chemombolization in the liver typically performed through
the hepatic artery. The liver tissue surrounding the tumor is minimally
affected. For patients taking this type of treatment the survival rate
is high. They life longevity is also increased.
Although alcohol ablation therapy , in which sclerosing agents are injected
in to metastatic or primary tumors of the liver, has been successful mode
of therapy its use has generally been confined to patients with cirrhosis
whose tumors are anatomically amenable to a percutaneous approach.
The Interventional radiology will play a high role in gene therapy for
cancer patients. It will be used to deliver the gene carrying vector to
the tumor
The patient suffering from cancer will have severe pain which is relieved
with this therapy. This relieves the pain completely or in some cases
to a tolerable extent. Interventional Radiology is playing a vital role
in the case of cancer patients and more and more new easy procedures are
being introduced day by day.
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