Objective
To summarize the treatment and prognosis of malignant tumors with hepatic metastasis.
Methods
Review and analysis of recent relevant literatures at home and abroad of malignant tumors with liver metastasis, according to the different treatments were summarized. Evaluation of the patients’ clinically curative effect and survival situation was performed under different treatments.
Results
With the development of imaging and surgical techniques, and deeply understanding of malignant tumor, many malignant tumors with liver metastasis could be found and treated, and previous concept of treatment for malignant tumors with liver metastasis was also fundamentally changed, and radical resection of the primary lesions and liver metastasis was the best way to get clinically curative effect for the patients with malignant tumors with liver metastasis. The treatments of malignant tumors with liver metastasis also included radio frequency ablation (RFA), transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), chemotherapy,125I seed implantation, cryotherapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT), gene targeting therapy, and so on.
Conclusion
Now for malignant tumors with liver metastasis, positive surgery and (or) individualized comprehensive treatment are taken more often, and they play positive role to prolong the survival and improve the prognosis of malignant tumors patients with liver metastasis.
