"Doctors Use New Method to Target Liver Cancer"
When Patrick Delaney was being worked up for a hepatitis treatment, doctors found something unexpected. Patrick had two tumors in his liver and they were inoperable. But doctors at The Mount Sinai Hospital were about to make him one of the first patients in the country to be treated with a new technique that uses “LUMI” beads coated with a chemotherapy drug. “The advantage of the LUMI bead is that you can see where you're targeting in real time, and you'll have diminished side effects,” says Edward Kim, MD, director of interventional oncology at The Mount Sinai Hospital. “Because the drug will release slower and so the maximum effects will be in the tumor and not in the body.” Learn more.