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Surgery for gastrointestinal tumors represents one of the key components of successful treatment and the ability to provide the best possible outcomes. The Baptist GICC provides access to experienced, fellowship trained surgeons who provide surgical care for the treatment of tumors of the esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas bile ducts, small and large intestine and rectum.
RFA is a guided procedure that uses high-energy radio waves to heat and destroy cancer cells.
Treatment of Barrett’s esophagus is now possible using a new technology called HALO Radiofrequency Ablation. The endoscopic HALO system delivers quick (less than one second) bursts of controlled heat to remove a very small layer of the diseased esophagus while avoiding injury to normal healthy tissue. HALO RFA procedures are performed without incisions and patients go home the same day.
An FDA-approved, non-surgical innovative treatment that uses tiny beads called microspheres delivers radiation directly to tumors in the liver. The microspheres are embedded with radioactive element Y-90 and is delivered through the hepatic artery and into the liver’s blood vessels to kill cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue.
In this procedure, microwaves are transmitted through a probe that are used to heat and destroy the abnormal tissue.
TACE is a minimally invasive procedure that restricts a tumor’s blood supply. Small, embolic particles coated with chemotherapeutic agents are injected selectively into an artery directly supplying a tumor.
