Innovating Liver Cancer Treatment: Expert Q&A

Hepatologist Dr. Anjana Pillai, radiologist Dr. Carla Harmath, and vascular and interventional radiologist, Dr. Osman Ahmed, discuss the Liver Tumor Program at UChicago Medicine and how imaging and intervention can help improve survival rates.

Table of Contents

0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:48 What are the symptoms of liver cancer or liver tumors?
0:02:59 Who's most likely to get liver cancer?
0:03:58 What is cirrhosis?
0:05:17 How does UChicago Medicine treat their liver cancer patients?
0:08:20 What are some examples of liver tumors?
0:12:03 What are the autoimmune diseases that predispose one to liver cancer
0:14:34 Do benign tumors actually cause symptoms?
0:15:20 Does liver cancer spread quickly?
0:19:15 Why is early detection of liver cancer so important?
0:20:44 why is liver cancer so difficult to treat?
0:22:20 What are some of the newer treatments that are offered at UChicago Medicine?
0:27:28 Is the liver tumor program accepting patients that have started treatment at other facilities?
0:28:13 What are the different phases of treatment at UChicago Medicine?
0:30:11 What do you tell patients who are scared or nervous?