Institutions use transarterial radioembolization for pediatric liver cancer

A team of physicians from the Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Children’s Cancer Center’s Pediatric Liver Tumor Program have begun using a state-of-the-art treatment known as transarterial radioembolization to treat children with liver tumors, according to a press release.

Transarterial radioembolization (TARE) is a two-step procedure in which dye is injected into an artery to identify blood supplies to the tumor followed by a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor via the mapped blood vessel, thereby sparing the neighboring healthy liver tissue.