Interventional oncology is an interventional radiology sub-branch that allows the diagnosis and treatment of many cancers using angiography, computed tomography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging methods. Interventional oncological methods have been used in cancer treatment for the last 30-40 years with technological advances.

How to Apply Interventional Oncology? 

Interventional oncology uses angiography, computed tomography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging methods without surgery, incision, or suture, and accelerates the treatment processes of cancer patients by reaching the targeted cancer tissue, selecting the appropriate technological devices for diagnosis and treatment (biopsy needles, ablation electrodes, intravenous catheters, radiation, or chemotherapy drug-loaded spheres).
The majority of the procedures are performed daily without the need for hospitalization. The patients return home in the evening after the procedure.

Which Diseases Does Interventional Oncology Treat? 

Interventional oncological methods are used in the diagnosis and treatment of hematological cancers such as blood and lymph nodes in the liver, kidney, bone, lung, breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers.

 What is Patient Indication?

• Biopsies requested for tissue diagnosis for many types of cancer.
• Ablation-freezing-burning treatments in liver, kidney, lung, and bone tumors.
• Chemoembolization and Y90 radioembolization treatments in primary and metastatic cancer diseases of the liver.
• All kinds of nerve blockages and nerve damage creation processes for cancer pain.

What are the Benefits of Interventional Oncology to the Patient? 

These treatments are performed without the need for surgery under ultrasound or computed tomography guidance, by placing special needles into the cancer tissue from the skin (percutaneous ablation) or by entering the artery feeding the tumor in special angiography devices using high technology, and injecting some substances from there (arterial interventions).
Interventional oncological procedures and treatments have significant advantages over conventional cancer treatments. The procedures are performed with local anesthesia and mild sedation (feeling sleepy), not under general anesthesia. No incisions or sutures and all treatments are administered through a single pinhole. It is not necessary to stay in the hospital, the patient returns home on the same day. The risk of side effects (complications) is low. The treatment can be repeated easily if necessary.