HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA DIAGNOSED RADIOLOGICALLY, TREATED BY TRANSCATHETER ARTERIAL EMBOLIZATION AND LIMITED-FIELD RADIOTHERAPY - CASE-REPORT

Even though the resection rate for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has risen recently, many patients cannot be treated surgically because of the advanced stage of the tumour and/or coexisting cirrhosis. An alter native therapeutic approach for some of these patients is transcathete r arterial embolization (TAE) which has become very common in Japan. H owever, it is not a curative measure, and an additional therapy is req uired to eradicate the residual disease. In this communication, we rep ort a case in which a patient with HCC has been successfully treated b y TAE followed by limited-field radiotherapy. The results suggest that this is a very promising therapeutic approach for HCC and that the po tential of limited-field radiotherapy for HCC with or without TAE also needs to be explored.