How Is The Operatıng Decısıon Made In Lıver Cancer

Teamwork is very important when deciding on surgery in liver cancers. Within the team that makes the decision of surgery with a multidisciplinary approach; We are talking about an approach that includes an oncologist, surgeon, gastroenterologist, radiologist, interventional radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. Each discipline evaluates the patient in their own way and the decision of surgery is made in the healthiest way. The patient's tumor may be too large or too many. The liver tissue that will remain in the patient at the end of this surgery may be very small. The oncologist shrinks or reduces the number of these tumors by starting chemotherapy in these patients. Nuclear medicine specialist and interventional radiologist can reduce tumor size with radioembolization or chemoembolization and make them suitable for surgery.