Role of interventional oncology for treatment of liver metastases: evidence based best practice

Abstract

The presence of liver metastases is associated with a poor prognosis in many cancer diseases. Multiple studies during the last decades aimed to find out the best multimodal therapy to achieve an ideal, safe and highly effective treatment. In addition to established therapies such as systemic therapy, surgery and radiation therapy, interventional oncology with thermal ablation, transarterial chemoembolisation and radioembolisation, is becoming the fourth pillar of cancer therapies and is part of a personalised treatments’ strategy. This review informs about the most popular currently performed interventional oncological treatments in patients with liver metastases.