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    Question ID:   15908         Current Version: 2
Question: Why do doctors inject alcohol into liver to treat liver cancer?
Category: Diseases & Conditions > Cancer
Keywords: treat, treatment, liver, cancer, alcohol, ethanol injection
Type: why
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Alcohol injection is a treatment for liver cancer. With this technique, surgeons or interventional radiologists figure out exactly where a tumor is located within the liver, often with an ultrasound scan, and pass a needle into it. Through the needle, they inject a liquid containing a high concentration of alcohol. The alcohol is so concentrated that it kills whatever cells it contacts, ideally, mostly liver cancer cells.

This form of treatment is most effective in treating small liver tumors (less than 3 centimeters in size). Occasionally, more than one small tumor can be treated at the same time, which places less stress on the rest of the liver. The procedure may be done once or twice a week. Usually local anesthesia is used, but if the patient has many tumors in the liver, general anesthesia may be needed.

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