In addition to radiation therapy (discussed below), a number of interventional radiology procedures may be used to treat either a primary tumor or metastases (cancer that has spread). Tumors may be addressed by ablative treatment (treatments that destroy tumors) such as radio frequency ablation or microwave ablation, or instead by tumor embolization (blocking a blood vessel that feeds a tumor so that the tumor dies).
Alternatively, either chemotherapy or radiation can be directly delivered to an area of tumor or metastasis (chemoembolization/radioembolization).
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