Recently, a tumor patient returned to his normal life who had been was carried on bed into No.3 People's Hospital affiliated to the Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University. During the past year, doctors used a small duct to challenge the treatment of liver cancer, with which a 20 cm tumor was shortened to 4 cm, greatly alleviating the condition.

In July of last year, Liu Hua (alia name), an out-of-town employer, came to visit a doctor due to abdominal pain and was diagnosed as liver cancer. After admission, the interventional doctor immediately found that surgery was not suitable for Mr. Liu who was in severe condition. They decided to use the vessel intervention treatment program.

Intervention therapy is a new treatment except the surgery and internal medical treatment, of which catheter treatment is one branch. For example, catheter intervention usually refers to introducing a catheter into vessels through puncture via thigh artery. “Nutrition supply line” for malignant tumors can be cut off with local administration, finally allowing them “to die of starvation”.

One week after admission, doctors conducted the initial surgery on Mr. Liu. Soon later his pain disappeared. One year after the treatment, the patient's condition got better. After the seventh intervention, CT showed tumor shrinkage to 4 cm.

During the past year, nearly 100 tumor patients received the intervention treatment in the radiology department of No.3 Hospital. Doctor Lin Yanbing (ÁÖÑã±ù) said that the intervention treatment became mature. Compared to systemic chemotherapy, local administration shows clear target, concentrated effect and small systemic adverse reactions. It is suitable for patients with relatively large tumor, unsuitable for operation, poor general condition, and special complications. But doctors also reminded that blood-supply for complex capillary vessels around the tumor will substantially improve the difficulty and risk of surgery. At present, the clinical doctors expect further studies on follow-up visit to intervention and patients’ postoperative survival rate several years later.