Local Ablation Therapy in Liver Cancer (Volume II)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatic metastasis; local ablation therapy; ultrasound; fusion imaging; radiofrequency ablation; microwave ablation; cryoablation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the second edition of the Special Issue titled “Local Ablation Therapy in Liver Cancer” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/special_issues/7VG7J68Z3M).
Local ablation therapy, including radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA), and cryoablation, has been widely used as a curative treatment option for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or small metastatic colorectal cancer in the liver. Recently, MWA has been emerging in the field of local ablation therapy because it has better physical properties by providing faster and higher heat than RFA. RFA has seen continuous evolution in the past decade. Nowadays, centripetal RFA using multiple RF electrodes, even with the no-touch technique, is widely used for better local tumor control. Cryoablation is expected to produce comparable therapeutic outcomes to thermal ablation. Notably, cryoablation has been reported to have a lower complication rate in treating HCCs close to the bile duct or intrahepatic vessels than RFA. This Special Issue will present recent advances in local ablation therapy, including RFA, MWA, and cryoablation, in liver cancer.
Dr. Min Woo Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- radiofrequency ablation
- microwave ablation
- cryoablation
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- metastasis
