Al Ain Hospital innovates a new technology to treat liver cancer

Mohsen Al Boshi (Al Ain) Al Ain Hospital, one of the facilities of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company “SEHA”, announced the launch of a new technology to treat incurable cases of liver cancer that cannot be treated by excision of the tumor, through catheterization of patients’ blood vessels and by thermal cautery, which is the process of cauterizing tumors inside the body without Surgery, through the special interventional radiology department in the hospital. Dr. Jamal Al-Qutaish, Head of the Diagnostic Radiology Department and Consultant Interventional Radiologist, explained that the new technology consists in providing arterial and thromboembolic catheterization services, which is an interventional radiological procedure, pointing out that the new medical procedure is an alternative to surgical intervention and works on two sides. The first is to prevent blood flow to the malignant tumor. The second is to deliver chemotherapy directly to destroy the tumor. He pointed out that the new method is using small granules with an embolism feature that are coated with chemotherapy and then injected directly into the artery that supplies the malignant tumor with blood. Reducing the size of the tumor and eliminating it with chemotherapy, explaining that through this, chemotherapy is directed directly to the cancerous tumor, which is better than the traditional chemotherapy that the whole body of the patient undergoes, as it reduces the side effects associated with traditional treatment. He pointed out that treating liver tumors by thermal cautery is a safe way to kill cancer cells by using a needle inserted through the skin into the tumor without a surgical incision, and then connected to a thermal generator device to eliminate it.