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When do you offer radioembolization (Y90) in the treatment of unresectable HCC?

Should Y90 be offered before or after TACE (based on the Northwestern phase 2 study) or sorafenib (based on the SARAH trial)?
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Radiation Oncology · Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Y90 does have some more data of better LC than TACE but not with OS in the Brown meta analysis (Brown et al., PMID 35943116).

I think for small tumors less than 5 cm, Y90 can be appropriate. I would not treat it for PVTT. The SARAH trial had a large majority with PVTT and was negative. As were Sorem...

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