The type of treatment recommended for liver cancer depends on how advanced the cancer is, the type of liver cancer, and other factors such as your age and general health. In recent years, several new therapies have been developed for hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer. Surgical removal of the entire tumor is the only way to completely eliminate liver cancer, but it only works if the cancer is isolated and every trace of it is removed. The alcohol injection helps to keep the tumor from spreading. Hormonal or cytotoxic chemotherapy approaches, including investigational therapies are used.
Hormonal chemotherapy produces the fewest side effects.
It can be effective against hepatocellular carcinoma, because the carcinoma depends on hormones circulating in the bloodstream to keep growing. This type of chemotherapy prevents the circulating hormones from attaching to cancer cells, thus inhibiting growth of the cancer cells. Cytotoxic chemotherapy, which is designed to kill the tumor cells. Physicians at the University of Chicago Hospitals are involved in several research protocols to test new treatments for liver cancer. These treatments are available to eligible patients through carefully monitored clinical trials .