Primarily application of treatment of hepatocellular cancer by ethanol injection

ABSTRACT

The hepatocellular cancer is the fourth position among cancer, the morbidity rate is increasingly. According to the size of tumor, an operation was implemented for tumor removal and hepatic arterial legation. For recent years, the army central hospital 108 have implemented to inject the ethanol for treatment of hepatocellular cancer for hepatic tumors with diameter of 3 cm and the tumors with diameter of 5 cm which found that the survival rate after 3 years of the ethanol injection was 90%. Recently the ethanol injection has been implemented by guidance of ultrasound for 6 patients (male 5, female 1) with ages of 54 - 75, and tumor’s diameter of 2.6-7cm and has obtained the results: pain free, appetite, weight gain, free fever (if having fever), less jaundice, normal or reduced alpha FP, and 1 patients lived more 13 months and 1 patient lived more 20 months after the treatment. These results suggested that ethanol injection was effective, economic solutions and lasts the life of patients.