Current Advances in Interventional Oncology
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nuclear Medicine & Radiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2025) | Viewed by 1020
Special Issue Editor
Interests: head and neck tumors; liver tumors; lung tumors; interventional oncology; interventional radiology; thermal ablation; transarterial chemoembolization
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Dear Colleagues,
When resectability is not/no longer possible, or the patient does not respond to systemic chemotherapy, interventional oncology offers various minimally invasive treatment methods to achieve the highest possible survival rate and maintain or improve the patient‘s quality of life.
Interventional oncology/radiology plays an increasingly important role in either cancer diagnosis using imaging-guided biopsies or in the treatment of oncological disease using minimally invasive locoregional therapies, such as transarterial embolization (TAE), transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), transarterial chemoperfusion (TACP), selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT), and transarterial radioembolization (TARE). Those therapies can be performed in an outpatient setting as they normally have low complication rates. They can be used as neoadjuvant, symptomatic, or palliative therapies for oncological diseases to improve survival and quality of life. TACE may also facilitate consecutive thermal ablation by reducing the size and/or number of metastases. Thermal ablation modalities are radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA), laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT), cryoablation, and electroporisation. The thermal energy is used to destroy the tumor via thermal ablation. Thus, it can also be used curatively, and in many cases, it is an alternative to surgical treatment.
We look forward to submissions of original research articles and reviews related to this topic of interventional oncology in order to further advance research in this important field.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Vogl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- interventional oncology/radiology
- vascular locoregional therapies
- thermal ablation
- treatment options
- imaging-guided biopsies
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