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REVIEW article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Thoracic Oncology
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1551644
This article is part of the Research Topic Recent Advances in Radiation Oncology for the Management of Thoracic Malignancies View all 3 articles
Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Lung Malignant Tumors
Provisionally accepted- Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization may enhance the local concentration and cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs and block the blood supply to the tumor, with an expectation to control the tumor, relieve hemoptysis, and prolong survival. This review will introduce the research progression of blood supply to lung cancer, discuss pulmonary artery chemoembolization (PACE) and bronchial artery chemoembolization (BACE) for lung cancer, including their indications and contraindications, operation techniques, efficacy assessments, combined treatments as well as their operating complications and the methods to prevent the adverse event.We will discuss the problems and challenges of percutaneous vascular intervention for lung cancer, such as the uncertainty of blood supply artery for lung cancer, the necessity of high-quality controlled studies, and the best choice for the indications.We hope to explore the direction of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for lung cancer. The aim of this review is to provide a reference for the practice of chemoembolization by vascular interventional radiology for lung cancer.
Keywords: lung cancer, interventional radiology, Pulmonary Artery, Bronchial artery, Chemoembolization
Received: 26 Dec 2024; Accepted: 25 Mar 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Yu-Jin LIU, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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