SIRT (Selective Internal Radiation Therapy)
Procedure 2: Administration
SIRT will be performed during a second procedure which can be conducted either the same day, the next day or one or two weeks after the initial angiogram is completed.
Before your treatment, you will be asked to come to the hospital with an empty stomach. Food and beverages are not permitted beforehand.
- As during the work-up, a catheter is threaded into the liver through either the femoral or radial artery.
- Radioactive microspheres are injected through the catheter.
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After the treatment
- Although the microspheres remain in the body, the radiation will be half as strong after 64 hours and almost gone after eleven days.
- Immediately following the procedure, the patient may be taken for a scan to confirm that the radioactive microspheres have been infused into the liver.
- The patient will be monitored for a few hours after the procedure and discharged usually within the next one to two days (depending on the local regulations).
- Most patients can resume their normal daily activities two to three days after the treatment.