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Department

Liver Cancer Center

For accurate diagnosis and effective patient treatment, the Liver Cancer Center's top-tier specialists in the fields of gastroenterology, digestive surgery, hematology, radiation oncology, radiology, pathology, and anesthesiology and pain medicine, etc. with extensive clinical experiences and professional knowledge are working under a close cooperative treatment system.

For surgery, the center boasts of 60 years' history and medical specialists producing the best surgical performances in Korea. The biggest strength of the Liver Cancer Center is that it performs surgeries only on patients for whom the best option is surgery.

In the field of radiotherapy, the center has treated the largest number of liver cancer patients in Korea through radiotherapy, and it is steadily increasing the cure and survival rates. In particular, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), which induces tumor necrosis through high-dose irradiation over a short period of time using a state-of-the-art radiation device, has been presented as an effective therapy involving less adverse reactions at domestic and international conferences.

As for chemotherapy, the excellent medical staff at the center provide the most effective customized treatment according to individual patients’ characteristics.

Liver cancer recurs easily and, in quite a number of cases, does not go away completely despite various treatments. Liver cancer patients for whom various treatments have failed have no other option but to rely on chemotherapy. Unfortunately, liver cancer has been one of the cancers for which chemotherapy does not work well. However, the performance of chemotherapy is being improved as a result of the development of various targeted therapies and immunotherapies, including their successful application to liver cancer treatment.

The medical staff from various departments discuss treatment policies through cooperation. Based on the cooperative treatment system, the Liver Cancer Center identifies the most effective treatment methods according to the characteristics of individual patients. When necessary, it adopts interdisciplinary approaches to combine surgery with other therapies in order to find the optimal treatments for each patient. Providing sufficient explanations and care from the stage of diagnosis to that of treatment, this patient-focused medical institution aims to conquer liver cancer.