Microwave coagulo-necrotic therapy for eight liver cancers

We reported eight liver cancers four hepatocellular carcinoma and four metastatic cancer who had recieved microwave coagulo-necrotic therapy (MCN). The indication of MCN was unresectable tumors and/or less than 4 cm in diameter. In cases of metastatic liver cancer, it was obligatry essential that the primary lesion had been resected radically. The efficacy of MCN was classified into four categories : excellent, good, fair, and poor. In the group of excellent category, no local reccurence was obserbed after MCN. We could recomfirm that the MCN was very effective and minimally invasive one for patients with both hepatocellular and metastatic liver cancer.