Liver Tumour Ablation Enters Mainstream Oncology With New Global Standards

Liver Tumour Ablation Enters Mainstream Oncology With New Global Standards

Liver tumour ablation has officially arrived. For decades, image-guided thermal ablation was treated as a niche technique, a minimally invasive alternative practised by a small community of interventional radiologists who delivered heat through needles to destroy tumours deep within the liver. That era is over. The publication of two companion international multisociety Delphi consensus statements in The Lancet Oncology, accompanied by a pointed…