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Comment by Pete Commented Jan 7, 2015
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An excellent product. There is now a good range of bead sizes including the smaller M1 beads allowing potential for greater tumour penetration. I use these beads for DC bead TACE for HCC and also more recently DEBIRI bead TACE for colorectal liver metastases.
Comment by rodo Commented Jan 25, 2011
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DCBEADS fashion of the moment in TACE procedures.
Seeing an embolic device raised to the top of the favourite devices in interventional radiology has been an astonishing surprise, it seems that there is a need of efficacious treatment for metatastatic patient and new fields have to be explored.
At my institution we started several protocols using DC BEADS:
- HCC (doxo)
- Neuroendocrine Tumors (doxo)
- Cholangiocellular Carcinoma (irino)
- Breast Mets (doxo)
The oncologist group on colorectal cancer do not believe in such treatments and did not want to start a recruitment.
Going beyond results of treatments I found very comfortable with the device, easy to upload the drugs (we trained a nurse to do that), easy to release in the wanted area if you are able to reach the site you intend to treat (sometimemes to assess the right position we use contrast enhanced ultrasound to better identify the perfusion area of interest).