Interventional therapy has become an important palliative therapy for advanced liver cancer,and meanwhile,interventional therapy is playing an important role in the downstaging of liver cancer. Local interventional therapy can help patients meet the criteria for transplantation or resection by reducing tumor volume and number in patients with advanced liver cancer. Interventional downstaging techniques include transarterial chemotherapy,drug-eluting beads,transarterial radioembolization,and various ablation techniques( radiofrequency ablation,microwave ablation,cryoablation,and ethanol ablation). No consensus has been reached on the optimal interventional downstaging strategy,while high-level evidence-based clinical studies are needed to screen out the optimal candidates for different methods and evaluate the complexity,safety,and long-term efficacy of subsequent liver transplantation after interventional downstaging therapy,so as to improve the effect of interventional therapy in the downstaging of advanced liver cancer.
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