肝癌

为什么选择UCLA健康中心进行肝癌治疗?

的 UCLA Health Gastrointestinal Oncology Program delivers care through the 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康约翰逊综合癌症中心 (JCCC). 的 JCCC has over 500 scientists and physicians who conduct cancer research and provide state-of-the-art cancer care.

Our team of liver cancer specialists works together to determine the best care for you. 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心的患者收到:

Access to next-generation liver cancer treatment and therapies: 胃肠临床研究领域的世界领先者, UCLA Health offers patients access to clinical trials and the latest experimental therapies.

全面、以团队为基础的方法: 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心, 我们的肝癌专家包括肝病学家, 胃肠病学家和肿瘤学家评论, 计划和管理你的护理.

便利的皇冠hga020电脑版护理: 一旦肝癌治疗计划落实到位, patients can receive ongoing treatment at one of our many community cancer clinics across the greater Los Angeles area.

我们的服务

我们关心 for you from your liver cancer diagnosis to treatment and beyond. 我们的全面肝癌服务包括:

诊断

To get an accurate liver cancer diagnosis your care team may order one or more of the following tests, 根据您的症状:

血液测试: 一组检查肝功能的实验室测试.

先进的成像: Provides clear images of your liver and surrounding organs. Your specialist may order an ultrasound, CT scan or MRI scan.

血管造影: An imaging test that uses a special dye to look at the blood vessels in the liver. X-rays capture images of the blood vessels to show a tumor's location and size. Doctors use this information to determine the stage of cancer.

肝活组织检查: A tissue sample of a tumor to check for signs of damage or disease, including cancer.  

癌症遗传学

Our genetic counselors and oncologists work together to determine the cause of liver cancer and evaluate your risk of future disease. Using this information, we help you make important decisions about your health. 了解更多有关 癌症遗传学项目 皇冠hga025大学洛杉矶分校健康中心. 

癌症支持

When you or a loved one has cancer, it helps to find a supportive community you can lean on. 的 Simms/Mann- UCLA综合肿瘤学中心 提供大量的资源，如咨询, 精神支持和冥想工作坊, 营养及其他.

我们治疗的肝癌

原发性肝癌起源于肝脏, an organ responsible for digestion and cleansing toxins from the body. 我们治疗所有类型的肝癌，包括:

血管肉瘤: 一种罕见的始于肝脏血管的癌症.

胆管癌: A slow-growing cancer that originates in the liver lining or in the bile ducts.

肝母细胞癌: 一种罕见的婴儿和儿童癌症. It typically occurs in children younger than five years old and can cause early puberty in older children.

肝细胞癌(肝癌): 最常见的肝癌. Hepatocellular carcinoma can result from cirrhosis, or scarring, of the liver.

转移性肝癌: A cancer that originates somewhere else in the body and spreads to the liver.

我们提供的治疗

Our team of experts offers the most advanced liver cancer treatments, imaging, and surgery. 肝癌的治疗包括:

非手术治疗肝癌

有时肝癌不能通过手术治疗. In those cases, our specialists may use one or more nonsurgical treatments:

化疗: A treatment that uses powerful drugs to kill liver cancer cells. Chemotherapy may also be used to shrink tumors before surgery or to kill remaining cancer cells after surgery.

放射治疗: 的 use of high-energy beams to precisely target and kill cancerous tissues.

靶向治疗: Medications that can stop cancerous liver cells from growing without harming healthy cells.

栓塞: A procedure that blocks blood supply to the tumor to keep it from growing. Either chemotherapy drugs or radioactive particles are injected directly into an artery in the liver. 

消融治疗: A minimally invasive procedure that uses heat to destroy liver tumors.

临床试验: Research studies to find promising therapies for liver cancer.

肝癌手术

Surgery is the first-line liver cancer treatment for certain types. 程序包括:

肝切除术: 切除部分或全部肝脏的手术.

肝移植: Surgery to remove the damaged liver and transplant a healthy donor liver.

认识我们的团队

Our team of liver cancer specialists includes gastroenterologists, 肝脏病学家, 介入放射科医生和肿瘤科医生. We collaborate to develop a liver cancer treatment plan that's right for you.