The palliative role of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in liver metastases

Metastatic involvement of the liver determines the treatment. Hepatic arter y chemoembolization (TACE) represents a safe palliative treatment for patie nts with unresectable liver metastases. Technical treatment, indication and results of the TACE are reported. The r esults of TACE depend on primary cancer, size and vascularisation of the he patic tumors. Our results with out patient treatment of 245 patients prove that TACE resu lts in a extremly low rate of side effects. Combination of TACE with local ablative treatment may present potentially curative treatment option for un resectable tumors.