SIRT with 90Y resin microspheres led to durable disease control in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor liver ...

The treatment, called selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), was approved last year, offering a lifeline for patients with a rare neuroendocrine tumour (NET) in the liver. At the time ...

Selective internal radiation therapy is a technique which involves embolizing radioactive yttrium-90 microspheres into the arterial supply of the liver as an alternative to iodine-131 lipiodol. It has ...

LIVER CANCER, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, is primarily attributed to hepatocellular carcinoma ...

Further information This topic is no longer in development. Please refer to IPG672 for the most recent publication on selective internal radiation therapy for unresectable colorectal metastases in the ...

Radiation therapy is an established method of cancer treatment. It works by subjecting tumor cells to ionizing radiation, ...

Nuclear medicine therapy uses radiopharmaceuticals ... delivering radiation to tumorous lesions as part of a therapeutic strategy to cure, mitigate or control the disease. It can be used either on ...