Yttrium-90 Therapy
Yttrium-90 therapy is a targeted liver treatment that delivers radiation to tumors through the blood vessels feeding them.
When to get help quickly: The therapy itself is usually planned rather than urgent, but prompt review is important if a patient develops severe pain, fever, vomiting, jaundice, or weakness after treatment.
Common symptoms
This treatment is usually considered when there is a liver tumour causing pain, growth on follow-up scans, or a cancer that needs targeted treatment inside the liver.
When imaging helps
Imaging helps map the liver blood vessels, plan where treatment should go, and check how the liver and tumour respond after therapy.
What radiology does
Interventional radiology performs the treatment and uses imaging before, during, and after therapy to plan and assess it.
What usually happens next
It is used in selected liver cancers and is coordinated with oncology, liver specialists, and follow-up imaging.
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