Liver cancers

Liver cancers can be divided into two categories:


Secondary cancers can almost never (except for liver metastases from neuroendocrine cancer) be treated with a liver transplant, but can be treated with surgical removal of the cancer (liver resection) and/or other alternative therapies which can be performed at ISMETT, such as thermal ablation of the tumor mass, liver intra-arterial chemotherapy, etc.

Unfortunately at the time of the diagnosis, liver primitive cancers have often already given signs of spreading into other organs, and therefore can only rarely be treated with a liver transplant. In some cases, however, when the primitive cancer is diagnosed early, it is possible to add the patient to the liver transplant waiting list, which, in these cases, offers good therapeutic results. Even primitive liver cancers can be treated with the surgical removal (liver resection) and/or the other above-mentioned alternative therapies which can be performed at ISMETT.