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Overview: A cancer that spreads, or metastasizes, to the liver from another part of the body is the most common form of liver cancer, and many cancers ultimately invade this vital organ. According to Dr. H. Richard Alexander, a surgical oncologist at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, the liver is a common place for cancers to spread, especially for colon cancer and other GI cancers, because it serves as a filter.
In this Medically Speaking podcast, Dr. Alexander, a professor of surgery and associate chairman of clinical research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, tells Karen Warmkessel that treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy, radioactive microspheres called SIR-Spheres, chemoembolization and a new technique under investigation to deliver high-dose chemotherapy only to the liver.
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