TY - JOUR JO - Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy SN - 1689-832X VL - 11 IS - 6 PY - 2019 ID - Kovács2019 TI - Critical review of multidisciplinary non-surgical local interventional ablation techniques in primary or secondary liver malignancies AB - Local non-surgical interventional percutaneous ablation represents nowadays an important part of the potential treatment strategies. Although surgical ablation represents the gold standard, in the past decade there was an expansion in the use of non-surgical ablative techniques: radiofrequency, microwave, laser, cryoablation, irreversible electroporation, and interventional radiotherapy (brachytherapy) in primary as well as secondary liver cancers. With the growing experience in the field, there was implemented a new pillar for cancer treatment, together with surgery, chemotherapy as well as radiotherapy, so-called interventional oncology (IO). To date, there are no published papers regarding a comparative interdisciplinary evaluation of all these non-surgical interventional local ablation therapies. Our paper offers a critical interdisciplinary overview of the treatments in both primary and secondary liver tumors, including from a cost-effective point of view. Furthermore, the present status of education in IO and a comparison of actual economic aspects of the treatments are also provided. AU - Kovács, Attila AU - Iezzi, Roberto AU - Cellini, Francesco AU - Lancellotta, Valentina AU - Bischoff, Peter AU - Carchesio, Francesca AU - Tagliaferri, Luca AU - Kovács, György AU - Gambacorta, Maria SP - 589 EP - 600 DA - 2019 DO - 10.5114/jcb.2019.90466 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2019.90466 ER -