Treatment for Liver Cancer

Our surgeons perform hundreds of liver cancer procedures each year. They are often able to offer treatment to people whose tumors aren’t considered operable at other hospitals.

When surgery isn’t the best option, we may call on our interventional radiologists to perform minimally invasive techniques using CT, ultrasound, or MRI to guide the treatments directly to your liver and destroy the tumor. Our doctors are skilled in ablation, NanoKnife techniques, and embolization to get rid of liver tumors.

Treatment for Advanced Disease
Many people don’t have surgery for primary liver tumors because the cancer is too advanced at the time we find it, or they have an underlying liver disease, such as cirrhosis (scarring of the liver). Sometimes liver tumors are so small that it doesn’t make sense to have surgery, since other therapies are likely to be just as effective.

Can Liver Tumors Be Benign?
Benign (noncancerous) tumors can form in the liver. Usually they don’t cause symptoms and are only found by chance when a person undergoes imaging tests for another health condition.

We may recommend that benign liver tumors be treated if they cause bleeding, abdominal pain, or other major symptoms.

Our researchers are evaluating a variety of drugs, including new and experimental drugs, for their potential effectiveness in treating tumors with these and other mutations.