Arterial based therapies: Use patients’ own blood vessels to deliver tiny beads soaked in either chemotherapy or loaded with radiation directly into the tumor without causing side effects to the rest of the body
- Radioembolization
- Chemoembolization
Ablative based therapies: Use probes which can get hot or cold in a controlled manner to treat tumors through a small puncture in the skin
- Microwave ablation
- Cryoablation ablation
- Irreversible Electroporation(IRE)
Biopsy: The removal of cells or tissue to discover the presence, cause or extent of a disease