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Semin intervent Radiol 2018; 35(01): 029-034
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636518
Review Article
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Locoregional Therapies for the Treatment of Hepatic Metastases from Breast and Gynecologic Cancers

Samdeep K. Mouli
1   Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
,
Ramona Gupta
1   Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
,
Neil Sheth
1   Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
,
Andrew C. Gordon
1   Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
,
Robert J. Lewandowski
1   Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
2   Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
3   Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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05 April 2018 (online)

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Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common women's malignancy in the United States and is the second leading cause of cancer death. More than half of patients with breast cancer will develop hepatic metastases; this portends a poorer prognosis. In the appropriately selected patient, there does appear to be a role for curative (surgery, ablation) or palliative (intra-arterial treatments) locoregional therapy. Gynecologic malignancies are less common and metastases to the liver are most often seen in the setting of disseminated disease. The role of locoregional therapies in these patients is not well reported. The purpose of this article is to review the outcomes data of locoregional therapies in the treatment of hepatic metastases from breast and gynecologic malignancies.

Keywords

breast cancer - gynecologic malignancies - liver metastases - chemoembolization - radioembolization - interventional radiology
 

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